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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University of Oxford
2000
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