A Political Agency Theory of Central Bank Independence /

We propose a theory to explain why, and under what circumstances, a politician gives up rent and delegates policy tasks to an independent agency. We apply this theory to monetary policy by extending a standard dynamic "New-Keynesian" stochastic general equilibrium model. This model gives a...

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Päätekijä: Eggertsson, Gauti
Muut tekijät: Le Borgne, Eric
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/144
Linkit:Full text available on IMF