Is the Walsh Contract Really Optimal?
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The purpose of this paper is to show that the linear penalization to inflation found in Walsh (1995) is not the government's optimal choice when the fixed part of the transfer scheme is any given constant and the payment to the central bank represents a cost for the government.Download Info
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Article provided by Springer in its journal Public Choice.
Volume (Year): 120 (2004)
Issue (Month): 1_2 (07)
Pages: 29-39
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- Georgios E. Chortareas & Stephen M. Miller, 2006. "The Walsh Contracts for Central Bankers Are Optimal After All!," Working papers 2006-14, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics.
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