Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228106 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 24/2020
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
We provide a new explanation for why central banks have become transparent over the last three decades. We apply recently developed social interaction panel regression models for the observational data, which allow the identification of peer effects. The identification is based on variations in the past monetary policy régime exogenously determined with respect to transparency. Previous literature has argued that domestic factors such as macroeconomic stability were behind the trend toward greater transparency. In contrast, our results indicate that transparency primarily increased because of a favorable global environment and, importantly, because of the peer effects among central bankers. Central bankers thus learned from each other's experiences regarding transparency. To our knowledge, our paper is the first econometric analysis of peer effects among public institutions or in the macroeconomic literature.
Subjects: 
peer effects
central banks
transparency
JEL: 
C31
D83
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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