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Record Nr.

UNINA9910975151703321

Autore

Vandenbussche Jerome

Titolo

Elements of Optimal Monetary Policy Committee Design / / Jerome Vandenbussche

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786613827470

9781462304387

1462304389

9781452717845

1452717842

9781283515023

1283515024

9781451909906

145190990X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (40 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Committees

Monetary policy - Decision making

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Central bank legislation

Central Banks and Their Policies

Communications in revenue administration

Deflation

Depository Institutions

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Price Level

Prices

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Revenue

Tax incentives

Taxation



Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General

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.