larger gains in credibility than the central banks in the reference group. . This result corroborates the conclusion that IT …

target. To (re-) establish credibility, monetary policy under discretion sets higher interest rates today if average … reflected in an additional term in the central bank's instrument rule, which we refer to as the "credibility loss." Augmenting a … and that this influence is economically meaningful. Deterioration in credibility (ceteris paribus) forces central bankers …

citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation … target. Our results indicate that credibility has decreased in our sample period, particularly in the course of the deep … several years, credibility has declined mainly because Germans increasingly expect that inflation will be much higher than 2 …