Abstract. The studydeals with determining the status of central banks and their formal independence in context index approach. authors argue that there is an inverse relationship between inflation level banks. It turned out expansion powers bank based on GMT-index shows a lower independence. conducted quantitative study elements peculiarities formulating bank's mandate, procedures for agreeing ...

extended distribution of digicash has commercial, socio-economic as well as political effects. from the economic viewpoint, the most crucial effect of digicash use extension takes place on money supply, monetary policies and central bank. because digicash is capable of being replaced by bank notes and the coins, it is possible that digicash gradually takes the place of the central bank money an...

We consider the optimality of various institutional arrangements for agencies that conduct macro-prudential regulation and monetary policy. When a central bank is in charge of price and financial stability, a new time inconsistency problem may arise. Ex-ante, the central bank chooses the socially optimal level of inflation. Ex-post, however, the central bank chooses inflation above the social o...

Increasing the independence of a central bank from political influence, although ex-ante socially beneficial and initially successful in reducing inflation, would ultimately fail to lower inflation permanently. The smaller anticipated policy distortions implemented by a more independent central bank would induce the fiscal authority to decrease current distortions by increasing the deficit. Ove...

The purpose of this study is finding the sensitivity of central bank independence measurements on its impact on inflation in Iran. To this aim different measurements of the central bank independence were calculated using the indices of Grilli et al. (1991), Cukierman et al. (1992), Mathew (2006) and Dumiter (2009) for the period 1961-2012 . Although results of correlation between CBI index and ...

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