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Bargaining over Monetary Policy and Optimal Committee Composition in a Currency Union

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  • Yuta Saito

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Drawing on the Barro-Gordon framework, this paper investigates the design of the monetary policy committee in a currency union which implements the optimal time-consistent policy. The monetary policy is determined through Nash bargaining between member countries, where the outside options consist of non-cooperation within the union. It is shown that the member which experiences a higher output should have a greater bargaining power to reduce the inflationary bias. We also found that the richer member's optimal bargaining power, which induces the equilibrium policy time-consistent, is U-shaped with respect to the heterogeneity in the output shock.

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  • Yuta Saito, 2018. "Bargaining over Monetary Policy and Optimal Committee Composition in a Currency Union," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 38(4), pages 1986-1996.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-18-00675
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    Keywords

    Inflationary Bias; Time-Inconsistency; Barro-Gordon; Monetary Union; Nash Bargaining;
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    JEL classification:

    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy

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