The Time Inconsistency of Monetary Policy with Inflation Persistence.

In a monetary policy model incorporating partial persistence in inflation it is shown that inflation bias is reduced and the response to shocks improved if the policy maker has a discount rate lower than its true social value. Thus a patient central banker is shown to be a third mechanism for offset...

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Main Author: Mash, R
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2000