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Central banks affect the resources available to fiscal authorities through the impact of their policies on the public debt, as well as through their income, their mix of assets, their liabilities, and their own solvency. This paper inspects the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal...
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theory to model these inference exercises and to assess their general possibility of success. So, is it possible to infer …
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Should inflation be thought of as "just another tax?" The theoretical basis for doing so dates back to Phelps (1973) and has been greatly refined ever since. Since optimal taxation minimizes the deadweight loss by equalizing the marginal distortions of all available taxes, including the...
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This paper offers a positive analysis of the relationships between macro prudential policy, micro supervision and central banking, presenting two contributions. Starting from the review of the recent theoretical models, which take the issue of the central bank involvement in macro supervision,...
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In the quarter-century since the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee was established, the various financial operations of the Bank of England and of the Government have become more inter-dependent, as a result of the financial crisis, quantitative easing, the response to Covid, and...
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stability, little theory is available to assess the consequences of such measures. This paper offers a theoretical model with …
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combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary …
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The literature on central banking so far has provided explanations of why we observe independent central banks and why central banks are usually more conservative than governments. However, little is known about the interaction between the two institutions. Bridging the gap, we focus on the...
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theory does not indicate an optimal institutional setting. We construct several measures of spatial spillover effects and … the traditional theory of central banking has to be integrated with political economy considerations.Our results support … the view that the traditional theory of central banking has to be integrated with political economy considerations …
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This paper investigates whether uncertainty about economic policy plays a role in shaping the credibility and reputation of the central bank in the eyes of the general public. In particular, we look at the effect of policy uncertainty for the dynamics of citizens' opinion, being trust,...
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