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Monetary policy has implicit redistribution effects for households when households are different. This changes the … unique question in the HFCS to calculate the sufficient statistics necessary to evaluate these redistribution channels. For … the euro area the three redistribution channels enhance monetary policy - the effects of one time expansionary monetary …
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In this paper bank bailout rules and central bank independence (CBI) are determined by majority voting. The failure of a bank is socially costly, since bailouts are financed by distortionary taxation. The tax distortion can be reduced via monetization, i.e. lowering CBI; but monetization causes...
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' is still a useful category for analysing redistribution in general and inflationary redistribution in particular. …
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can mitigate time inconsistency by introducing a status quo bias. When voting institutions (ie. the committee … of commitment and flexibility preferred by the median voter. A corollary to this provides a theory of why constitutional …
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The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal representation in a federal central bank addressing this...
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
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We analyze the ECB Governing Council’s voting procedures. The literature has by now discussed numerous aspects of the rotation model but does not account for many institutional aspects of the voting procedure of the GC. Using the randomization scheme based on the multilinear extension (MLE) of...
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