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Titel:Monetary Policy Committee Transparency: Measurement, Determinants, and Economic Effects
Autor:Hayo, Bernd
Weitere Verfasser:Mazhar, Ummad
Veröffentlicht:2011
URI:https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2024/0105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/es2024.0105
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2024-01050
ISSN: 1867-3678
DDC:330 Wirtschaft
Publikationsdatum:2024-01-02
Lizenz:https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0

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Schlagwörter:
Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy Committee, Monetary Policy Transparency, Transparency, Central Banks

Summary:
This paper studies monetary policy committee transparency (MPCT) based on a new index that measures central bankers’ educational and professional backgrounds as disclosed through central bank websites. Based on a novel cross-sectional data set covering 75 central banks, we investigate the determinants of MPCT as well as its economic consequences. We find that past inflation, quality of institutional setup, and extent of Internet use in a country are important determinants of MPCT. MPCT has a robust and significantly negative impact on inflation variability, even after controlling for important macroeconomic variables and institutional transparency, as well as instrumenting MPCT in various ways.


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