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This study examines the effect of legal central bank independence on inflation in developing countries. In spite of the … policy consensus suggesting that central bank independence is an effective tool to control inflation, the evidence is still … inflation for a sample of 118 developing countries between 1980 and 2013. We find that higher central bank independence is …
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-benevolent government. Although this reform would be socially beneficial and initially succeed in reducing inflation, it would fail to lower … inflation permanently. The smaller anticipated policy distortions implemented by a more independent central bank would induce … the fiscal authority to trade-off higher current deficits for lower future deficits. In the long run, inflation would …
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On theoretical grounds, a clear distinction exists between central bank independence and inflation aversion. In the … conduct of monetary policy, both contribute to lower inflation. In this paper, we re-examine empirically the nexus between … central bank independence and inflation for a large sample of advanced and developing countries over the period 1992–2014 by …
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According to the game-theoretic model of monetary policy, inflation is the consequence of time-inconsistent behavior of … the monetary authority. The inflation bias can be eased by handing over the responsibility for monetary policy to an … sample of 11 OECD countries. -- Central Banking ; Conservatism ; Central Bank Independence ; Inflation …
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banks to use interest rates to tackle inflation. However, as the financial crisis showed, financial stability is also …
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The ongoing post-pandemic inflation burst has put the monetary policy framework, its governance alternatives, and the … politicized yet independent model of central banking over the past two decades on the inflation burst. The study identifies four … demanding advanced stages of the fight against inflation. It is anticipated that this episode will contribute to complete the …
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In this paper we suggest a simple empirical and model-independent measure of Central Banks' Conservatism, based on the Taylor curve. This new indicator can easily be extended in time and space, whatever the underlying monetary regime of the considered countries. We demonstrate that it evolves in...
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In this article, the issue of the monetary independence problem in view of the Romania's European Monetary Union accession is investigated empirically. It is frequently argued that for such a country, the main cost of participation in a currency area is the loss of monetary policy independence....
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Why do dynamic inconsistencies in monetary policy exist? In this paper we present a traditional model with output inefficiencies, but we allow for monetary policy to be influenced by the various constituencies in the economy, that pressure the Congress to in turn pressure the central bank to...
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independence (CBI) on price stability (the level of inflation and inflation volatility), employing a panel dataset that covers up …
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