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How committees reduce the volatility of policy rates

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Etienne Farvaque () (Equippe - Universités de Lille, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et Sociales, France.)
Norimichi Matsueda () (School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.)
Pierre-Guillaume Méon () (DULBEA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,)

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This paper relates the volatility of interest rates to the collective nature of monetary policymaking in monetary unions. Several decision rules are modelled, including hegemonic and democratic procedures, and also committees headed by a chairman. A ranking of decision rules in terms of the volatility of policy rates is obtained, showing that the presence of a chairman has a cooling e¤ect. However, members of a monetary union are better off under symmetric rules (voting, consensus, bargaining), unless they themselves chair the union. The results are robust to the inclusion of heterogeneities among members of the monetary union.

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Keywords: Monetary Policy Committees; Decision Procedures; Interest-rate; Monetary Union;

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D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Determination of Interest Rates; Term Structure of Interest Rates
E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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