Erhart, Szilárd; Lehment, Harmen; Paz, Jose L. Vasquez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
Previous research on the optimal size of a monetary policy committee (MPC) focused on theoretical analyses and experimental studies. These studies suggest that the ideal monetary policy committee may not have many more than five members. In this paper we conduct an empirical cross-country study...