Estimating the effect of central bank independence on inflation using longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation

The notion that an independent central bank reduces a country’s inflation is a controversial hypothesis. To date, it has not been possible to satisfactorily answer this question because the complex macroeconomic structure that gives rise to the data has not been adequately incorporated into statisti...

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Main Authors: Baumann Philipp F. M., Schomaker Michael, Rossi Enzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of Causal Inference
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2020-0016