incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and …: it covers credibility issues, political business cycles, and optimal design of monetary institutions. Part II deals with … fiscal policy in a dynamic general equilibrium set up: the main topics here are credibility of tax policy, and political …

incentive constraints on the policy-making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and …, and focuses on credibility, political business cycles, and optimal design of monetary institutions. Part II deals with … fiscal policy in a dynamic general equilibrium set up; the main topics covered in this section are credibility of tax policy …

by observing the policy instrument or inflation outcomes. Measuring credibility as the distance between the perceived … target and the actual target, an increase in credibility is beneficial to the central bank because it brings the policy … deviations from target. I then illustrate the impact of other factors on credibility formation, including choice of monetary …

model, we argue that the real effects of the Volcker disinflation were mainly due to its imperfect credibility. In our view … key indicators of its imperfect credibility. Studying transcripts of the Federal Open Market Committee recently released … rates as indicative of inflation expectations and of the credibility of their disinflationary policy. Drawing from the …