 Bank centralny w świetle teorii agencjiAndrzej Wojtyna Gospodarka Narodowa-The Polish Journal of Economics, 2004, vol. 2004, issue 9 Abstract: The article is devoted to possibilities of applying agency theory in research into efficiency of institutional solutions in central banks. Its first part presents factors due to which, like in many other cases of agency relationship, it is also in reference to central bank that drawing up appropriate practical solutions turns out to be a very complicated task giving rise giving rise to alot of controversy and even political emotions. The second part of the article is focused on those tenets of theoretical research, which while treating the central bank as an agent aim at an optimum contract allowing central bank independence to be tied with requirements for its democratic accountability. In the third part, emphasis is put on agency relations within the central bank. It discusses the results of numerous studies of various aspects of efficiency of making central banks’ decisions by committees. In conclusions of this article several remarks are made about possibilities of applying agency theory in analyses of institutional solutions adopted in the National Bank of Poland. Keywords: Financial Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:polgne:355485 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Gospodarka Narodowa-The Polish Journal of Economics from Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie / SGH Warsaw School of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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