This paper analyzes the voting records of four central banks (Sweden, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic) with … spatial models of voting. We infer the policy preferences of the monetary policy committee members and use these to analyze …

We examine the determinants of the dissent in central bank boards' voting records about monetary policy rates in the … robust determinants of voting dissent. The difference in central bankers' preferences is likely to drive the dissent in the U … rates are changed. Some evidence is also found that food price volatility tends to increase the voting dissent in the U …