Indipendenza della Banca Centrale e democrazia: una contraddizione apparente

MariaOlivella Rizza ()

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2004, vol. 112, issue 3, 277-305

Abstract: Since Rogoff theorised it, central bank independence has been analysed almost exclusively with the tools of economic science, leading some economists to highlight a contradiction between independence and democracy. Recent contributions introducing political science tools have proposed a rationalisation of monetary conduct in which this contradiction does not hold. This article examines the contributions to the debate of Blinder, Stiglitz and Cama e Pittaluga, whose implicit positions on the neutrality of monetary policy are made explicit. It shows that Central Bank independence can be endorced even if neutrality is not agreed and suggests that independence is to be ascribed in different forms and degrees.

Keywords: Central Banks; democracy; independence; neutrality of monetary policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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