independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country's inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …

to the share of the term in office elapsed, political and regime instability, the occurrence of elections, and inflation … independence. This is confirmed in models for cross-section inflation in which TOR becomes insignificant once its endogeneity is …