Central Bank Autonomy : Lessons from Global Trends /

We calculate indexes of central bank autonomy (CBA) for 163 central banks as of end-2003, and comparable indexes for a subgroup of 68 central banks as of the end of the 1980s. The results confirm strong improvements in both economic and political CBA over the past couple of decades, although more pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laurens, Bernard
Other Authors: Arnone, Marco, Segalotto, Jean-Francois, Sommer, Martin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/088
Online Access:Full text available on IMF