Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/120428 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 35/2014
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
We examine whether central banks' voting records help predict the future course of monetary policy in the Czech republic, Hungary, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom, controlling for financial market expectations. Unlike previous research, first, we examine the period of the global financial crisis, characterized by a high level of uncertainty, and second, we examine the predictive power of voting records at longer time horizons, i.e., not only for the next monetary policy meeting. We find that voting records predict the policy rate set at the next meeting in all central banks that are recognized as independent. In some central banks, voting records are found - before, but not during, the financial crisis - to be informative about monetary policy even at more distant time horizons.
Subjects: 
voting records
financial crisis
central bank
monetary policy
JEL: 
D78
E52
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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