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Financial markets embed expectations of central bank policy into asset prices. This paper compares two approaches that extract a probability density of market beliefs. The first is a simulatedmoments estimator for option volatilities described in Mizrach (2002); the second is a new approach...
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This study examined whether the proposed West African currency, the ECO, should be tied to the US dollar, Euro, Naira, or CFA? The study partitions the four currencies into two groups: (i) already internationalized currencies (US dollar and Euro); and (ii) emerging currencies for...
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rate, we get a measure for the credibility of the exchange rate.We estimate the expected rate of depreciation of the … credibility in the form of decreasing devaluation expectations over the period 1987-1992.The explanation for this increase in the …
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The effect of 'locking-in' economic reform and enhancing its credibility is generally regarded as one of the most … thus to improve the credibility of the Syrian process of reform at home and abroad. A major loophole of the agreement …
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In this paper, we explore the interest rate setting behavior of newly appointed central bank governors. We use the Kuttner and Posen (2010) sample, which covers 15 OECD countries, and estimate an augmented Taylor (1993) rule for the period 1974-2008. We find, first, that newly appointed...
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-)establish credibility, optimal monetary policy under discretion is shown to set higher interest rates today if average inflation exceeded … term in the central bank's optimal instrument rule, which we refer to as the credibility loss. Augmenting a standard Taylor … seven central banks and that this influence is economically meaningful. A deteroriation in credibility forces central …
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, inflation targeting gained instant credibility in the sense that the labor market organizations entered long-term wage …
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The paper compares the credibility of currency boards and (standard) pegs. Abandoning a currency board requires a time …
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ecological ones. Taxes solve the credibility problem a monopoly supplier of licenses would face, and lead to a suboptimal low …
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formation of inflation expectations and that the anti-inflationary credibility of both central banks is not perceived to differ …
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