Central Bank Transparency: Causes, Consequences and Updates

Nazire Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen

No 14791, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We present updated estimates of central bank for 100 countries up through 2006 and use them to analyze both the determinants and consequences of monetary policy transparency in an integrated econometric framework. We establish that there has been significant movement in the direction of greater central bank transparency in recent years. Transparent monetary policy arrangements are more likely in countries with strong and stable political institutions. They are more likely in democracies, with their culture of transparency. Using these political determinants as instruments for transparency, we show that more transparency monetary policy operating procedures is associated with less inflation variability though not also with less inflation persistence.

JEL-codes: E0 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03
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Published as Theoretical Inquiries in Law. Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 75–123, ISSN (Online) 1565-3404, DOI: 10.2202/1565-3404.1237, January 2010

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