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Why the ECB Should be Ultra-Liberal

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  • Rasmus Hoejbjerg Jacobsen

    (Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

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The statute of the ECB states that its primary target should be to maintain price stability. The theoretical foundation behind this target is that of a socially optimal conservative central banker. We challenge the robustness of this result in a model with endogenous labor market policy, decided upon by a politically motivated government. In this model, the socially optimal choice of central banker is an ultra-liberal, who eliminates both inflation and unemployment and removes the political distortion. Somewhat paradoxically, the labor union supports an ultra-conservative central banker, because this means a more generous labor market policy.

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  • Rasmus Hoejbjerg Jacobsen, "undated". "Why the ECB Should be Ultra-Liberal," Economics Working Papers 2000-10, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
    • Handle: RePEc:aah:aarhec:2000-10
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    Keywords

    Monetary institutions; endogenous labour market policy; lobbying labor union;
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    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • H19 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Other

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