bankers to explain their monetary policy decisions in detail and for them to publish inflation forecasts. This leads to the … question of how central bank transparency is entangled with price stability and inflation volatility. A plethora of studies … transparency leads to lower inflation, others concluded that openness of central banks results in higher prices. Conversely, there …

This paper analyzes the effects of legal central bank independence (CBI) on inflation volatility in developing … countries. We discuss why CBI should curb inflation volatility, independently from its effect via lowering inflation levels … the endogeneity of CBI and inflation. Our results are robust to alternative measurements of the main variables, different …