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Testing for central bank independence and inflation using the wild bootstrap

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  • Andrea Monticini

    (Catholic University Milan)

  • David Peel

    (Lancaster University)

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This paper reviews the relationship between Central Bank Independence (CBI) and Inflation both in high income economies (as proposed in Campillo and Miron 1997 and Temple 1998) and in developing countries (as proposed in Brumm 2006)1 when a variety of Heteroskedasticity Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimators as well as the wild bootstrap are employed.

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  • Andrea Monticini & David Peel, 2009. "Testing for central bank independence and inflation using the wild bootstrap," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 29(3), pages 1602-1607.
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    Keywords

    Inflation Central bank independence Wild bootstrap;

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    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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