Monetary policy committees individual and collective reputations

This paper looks at how the reputation of a monetary policy making committee is jointly determined with the reputations of its individual members. I ask whether individuals have more or less incentive to gain a reputation for being tough on inflation when they are part of a group. I examine the effe...

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1. Verfasser: Sibert, Anne C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Munich Univ., Center for Economic Studies 1999
Schriftenreihe:CESifo working paper series 226
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Zusammenfassung:This paper looks at how the reputation of a monetary policy making committee is jointly determined with the reputations of its individual members. I ask whether individuals have more or less incentive to gain a reputation for being tough on inflation when they are part of a group. I examine the effect of increased transparency - in the form of publishing the votes of individual members - on individuals' incentives to appear hard nosed. I look at how other institutional features of central banks affect the policy making bodys̕ incentive to refrain from inflation.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 30 - 31
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