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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Autor Principal: Laurens, Bernard
Outros autores: Arnone, Marco, Segalotto, Jean-Francois, Sommer, Martin
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/088
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF