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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788404203321

Titolo

Elements of Optimal Monetary Policy Committee Design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-0438-9

1-4527-1784-2

1-283-51502-4

9786613827470

1-4519-0990-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (40 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Committees

Monetary policy - Decision making

Banks and Banking

Inflation

Public Finance

Taxation

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Price Level

Deflation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

Central Banks and Their Policies

Banking

Macroeconomics

Public finance & taxation

Central bank legislation

Tax incentives

Communications in revenue administration

Banks and banking

Prices

Revenue

United Kingdom



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. A LARGE DIVERSITY OF MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEES""; ""III. NORMATIVE ISSUES IN MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE DESIGN""; ""IV. PREFERENCE AGGREGATION IN MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEES""; ""V. BELIEF AGGREGATION IN MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEES""; ""VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""VII. REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

The move from individual decision making to committee decision making is widely seen as a major evolution in contemporary central banking. This paper reviews the relevant economics and social psychology literatures with a view to providing some insights into the question of optimal monetary policy committee design. While the preference aggregation literature points to the effect of committee structure on the extent of the time inconsistency problem and its associated costs, the belief aggregation literature analyzes how different committee structures affect the efficiency of information pooling, the process of social influence, and collective accuracy. In conclusion, we highlight the main tradeoffs that the analysis has brought to light and point to directions for future research.