This Article examines executive branch powers to “override” the decisions of an independent central bank. It focuses in particular on the power and authority of a nation's executive branch to direct its central bank, thereby circumscribing canonical central bank independence. To investigate...

This paper studies the effectiveness of forward guidance when central banks have imperfect credibility. Exploiting unique survey-based measures of expected inflation, output growth, and interest rates, we estimate a small-scale New Keynesian model for the United States and other G7 countries...