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Quel objectif pour une Banque centrale ?

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[eng] Which objective for a central bank ?. . Most Central Banks have an intermediate money growth objective. However, some of them have abandoned this objective to control directly inflation. We com­pare, from a theoretical point of view, the different objectives or intervention methods of a Central Bank : rule based on interest rates, intermediate money growth objective, intermediate inflation or output objectives. We suppose that a Central Bank has more information than the public, which permits to compare « conditional rules » based on the information available to the Central Bank and « unconditional rules » depending only on the information available to the public. Three criteria are used: efficiency, i. e the similarity between the final objective and its achievement; transparency; instrument stability, interest rates being not allowed to be excessively volatile. [fre] Quel objectif pour une Banque centrale ?. . La plupart des banques centrales ont un objectif intermédiaire de croissance de la masse monétaire. Pourtant, certaines ont abandonné cet objectif pour contrôler directement l'inflation. Nous avons procédé à une comparaison théorique des différents objectifs ou modes d'intervention d'une Banque centrale : règle basée sur les taux d'intérêt, objectif intermédiaire d'évolution de la masse monétaire, objectif intermédiaire d'inflation ou de production. Nous avons supposé qu'une Banque centrale disposait d'informations plus complètes que le public, ce qui nous a permis d'établir une comparaison entre « règles conditionnelles », dépendantes de l'information dont dispose la Banque centrale, et « règles inconditionnelles », uniquement dépendantes de l'information également accessible au public. Les critères retenus sont au nombre de trois : l'efficacité, c'est-à-dire le degré de coïncidence entre l'objectif final et sa réalisation ; la transparence, la stabilité de l'instrument, les taux d'intérêt ne pouvant être excessivement volatils.

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  • Patrick Artus, 1998. "Quel objectif pour une Banque centrale ?," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 49(3), pages 643-653.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1998_num_49_3_409997
    DOI: 10.3406/reco.1998.409997
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