In this paper, I revisit an old question in the analysis of monetary policy that was first studied by Rogoff (1985) — should central banks pursue objectives that differ systematically from social welfare? I investigate how the answer to this question is affected by the degree of transparency that characterizes monetary policy. When the policy regime is one of discretion and the central bank is ...

Central bank talk has been a topic of debate and empirical analysis within the central bank community and the economics profession for at least the thirty years that span Chuck’s career as a central banker. And what many regard as the seminal work in this area has a particularly Canadian connection. The work on bureaucratic theory and the choice of central bank goals by Acheson and Chant (1973)...

This paper studies the incentives a central bank faces in announcing inflation targets when the central bank has private information about the economy and the public is uncertain about the central bank’s preferences. Targeting rules in the absence of announcements reduce the inflationary bias of discretionary policy, but they distort the central bank’s response to private information about the ...

In this paper I ask whether a central bank policy of providing liquidity to banks during panics can prevent bank runs without causing moral hazard. This kind of policy has been widely advocated, most notably by Bagehot (1873). To analyze such a policy, I build a model with three key features: 1) bank panics can occur in equilibrium, 2) there can be moral hazard, 3) the central bank can create m...

We explore the dynamical properties of the Godley-Lavoie model with a focus on Central Bank horizons. The stability properties of modes of regulation are traced from a regime of private bank money to the current crisis with the Central Bank levers of short-term bonds issue to the emerging policy regime of long-term bonds as built-in stabilizers.

We study how the introduction of a central bank-issued digital currency affects interest rates, the level of economic activity, and welfare in a model where both central bank money and private bank deposits are used in exchange. Banks in our model are financially constrained and the liquidity premium on bank deposits affects the level of aggregate investment. We study the optimal design of a di...

The presence of moral hazard in the banking sector can have worrying results. This paper examines the role of government guarantees to banks in generating moral hazard in Iran. We test for moral hazard among bank creditors by determining whether protected banks received more funds from creditors than non-protected banks. Empirically, to determine the existence of moral hazard among bank manag...