Rogoff´s "conservative" central banker restored
Herrendorf, Berthold and Lockwood, Ben (1997) Rogoff´s "conservative" central banker restored. Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 4, (1), 476-495.
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We show that delegation of monetary policy to a weight-conservative central banker can be desirable, although the government can also use an inflation contract, an employment target, an inflation target, or any combination of these to control the central banker. The key feature of our model is a stochastic inflation bias, arising when wage setters receive some information about a supply shock prior to signing nominal wage contracts. Weight-conservatism is found to be desirable if fully state-contingent delegation is not possible and the stochastic inflation bias cannot be eliminated by optimal choice of the delegation parameters.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0022-2879 (print) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Item ID: | 33452 |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 09:00 |
| Contributors: | Herrendorf, Berthold (Author) Lockwood, Ben (Author) |
| Date: | November 1997 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33452 |
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