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We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank Household Panel survey for Germany. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from political science and psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors...
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Political science research has established that trust in institutions, including central banks, is shaped by socio-economic and demographic factors, as well as by the assessment of institutional features and by slow-moving components such as culture. However, the role of cognitive processes has...
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in 1896, we construct a measure of the credibility of the gold standard spanning the entire sample period. Changes in …
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This paper analyses the consequences for monetary policy in the presence of currencies issued by firms. Such currencies generate seignorage revenues and information on consumers. In a benchmark model of imperfectly competing firms, information breaks the usual portfolio indeterminacy as in...
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of credibility in monetary policy. The expected hazard rate of exit is estimated as a function of legal and political … variables. The measure of credibility is the expected probability of a disinflation beginning when inflation is rising. For a … of credibility. This provides evidence of the expected relationship between independence and credibility not found in …
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Using survey data we estimate private sector inflation expectations for the major European economies and find that Euro-area countries have experienced inflation expectations significantly above outcomes over the period since 1999 whilst the UK has not
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Using micro data from the 2015 Dutch CentERpanel, we examine whether trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) influences individuals' expectations and uncertainty about future inflation, and whether it anchors inflation expectations. We find that higher trust in the ECB lowers inflation...
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Using micro data from the 2015 Dutch CentERpanel, we examine whether trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) influences individuals' expectations and uncertainty about future inflation, and whether it anchors inflation expectations. We find that higher trust in the ECB lowers inflation...
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This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of central bank forward guidance when central bank credibility is …
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Using micro data from the 2015 Dutch CentERpanel, we examine whether trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) influences individuals' expectations and uncertainty about future inflation, and also whether it anchors inflation expectations. We find that higher trust in the ECB lowers inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977423