Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104220 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Munich Discussion Paper No. 2007-8
Publisher: 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München
Abstract: 
Excessive inflation is usually attributed to the lack of central bank’s credibility. In this context, most of the literature considers transparency a means to establish central bank’s credibility. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it shows that, even in the absence of inflationary bias, a credible central bank may find it optimal to implement an accommodating monetary policy in response to cost-push shocks whenever the uncertainty surrounding its monetary instrument is high. Indeed, the degree of central bank’s transparency influences the effectiveness of its policy to stabilize inflation in terms of output gap, and thereby whether it will implement an expansionary or contractionary policy in response to cost-push shocks. Second, it stresses that transparency is not just a means to achieve credibility but is essential per se for the optimality of monetary policy of a fully credible central bank.
Subjects: 
monetary policy
differential information
transparency
cost-push shocks
JEL: 
E58
E52
D82
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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