An empirical analysis of monetary policy committees composition and its relationship with monetary policy

This paper compiles a novel and unique dataset encompassing 439 individuals who served as board members on 16 different inflation-targeting central banks’ monetary policy committees (MPCs) from 1999 to 2018. We document relevant trends over the past twenty years: (i) An increasing share of women ser...

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Main Authors: Guilherme Spilimbergo Costa, Diogo Abry Guillen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Latin American Journal of Central Banking
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666143824000164