This paper examines whether it is socially desirable for the individual voting records of central bank council members to be published when central bankers' ; preferences differ. We show that the misrepresentation of their preferences is not advantageous for central bankers although central...

We integrate a monetary policy committee into a New Keynesian model to assess the consequences of the committee's institutional characteristics for welfare. First, we demonstrate that uncertainty about the committee's future composition may be desirable. Second, we show that longer terms of...

We present a simple neoclassical model to explore how an aggregate bank-capital requirement can be used as a macroeconomic policy tool and how this additional tool interacts with monetary policy. Aggregate bank-capital requirements should be adjusted when the economy is hit by cost-push shocks...

We analyze a simple yet fully non-linear New Keynesian model of the liquidity trap. Productivity shocks are the only source of aggregate fluctuations and the central bank acts as a discretionary policy maker that pursues an inflation targeting strategy. We use this model to assess the effects of...

We propose a signaling model in which the central bank and firms receive information on cost-push shocks independently from each other. If the firms' signals are rather unlikely to be informative, central banks should remain silent about their own private signals. If, however, firms are...

In a large class of linear-quadratic models with rational expectations, the commitment solution can be implemented by a policy-maker who acts purely under discretion. To show this, we construct discretionary equilibria with payoff-irrelevant state variables. These additional state variables are...

In this paper we examine a model where firms decide on the intensity of information acquisition about shocks. We analyze how the monetary policy framework impacts on the aggregate amount of information collected by firms. We show that it is socially beneficial to delegate monetary policy to a...

In this paper we examine the impact of reciprocal motives on decision-making in a committee. We show that any voting behavior that constitutes an equilibrium without reciprocity also represents an equilibrium when people are reciprocally motivated. If reciprocal motives are important, additional...

We examine whether the central bank council of a monetary union should publish its voting records when members are appointed by national politicians. We show that the publication of voting records lowers overall welfare if the private benefits of holding office are sufficiently low. High private...