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of credibility (private inflation expectations coinciding with the inflation target) are discussed. Credibility improves …
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predicted by Walters only arise when the credibility of the peg differs as between the labour and financial markets: but even if …
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This paper extends the work of Barro and Gordon (1983) to general linear models with rational expectations. We examine the question whether the optimal policy rule, i.e. the one that a government which could pre-commit itself would use, can be sustained as a consistent rule in the sense defined...
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-commitment. Coordination can be futile, since it exacerbates the lack of credibility perceived by the private sectors. …
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This paper proposes a conceptual framework to investigate the effects of central bank independence, of the degree of centralization of wage bargaining and of the interaction between those institutional variables, on real wages, unemployment and inflation. The labour market is characterized by...
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This paper proposes a model to shed light on two important policy features of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe: the idea of a necessary critical mass of privatization on the one hand, and the difficulties encountered in the actual privatization process on the other, related to the...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for the analysis of policy-makers' choices regarding unilateral exchange rate bands. Exchange rate bands are viewed as the outcome of an optimization problem by a policy-maker whose objective function weighs the level of the real exchange rate...
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The dynamic inconsistency of a government's preferred policy, when it occurs, usually implies that the maximum level of welfare that can be delivered at some initial time can only be attained by constraining the economy to `low' levels in the future. In this paper, we set up a linear quadratic...
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conventional wisdom concerning the limited credibility of the interwar gold standard. Before 1914, gold standard adherence … effectively signalled credibility and shaved 40 to 60 basis points from country borrowing spreads. In the 1920s, however, simply …
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incentive constraints on the policy-making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and …, and focuses on credibility, political business cycles, and optimal design of monetary institutions. Part II deals with … fiscal policy in a dynamic general equilibrium set up; the main topics covered in this section are credibility of tax policy …
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