Two Hands on the Wheel: Independent Central Banks, Politically Responsive Governments, and Inflation (original) (raw)

48106-1248. Electronic correspondence (preferred) may be addressed to franzese@umich.edu; phone: (313) 936-1850; and fax: (313) 764-3341. All statistical analysis conducted in E-Views 2.0 © QMS; all data available from the author’s homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu. I wish to thank Steve Casper, Tom Cusack, Peter Hall, Torben Iversen, and David Soskice for helpful discussions of a related paper; Torsten Persson whose comments on another paper sparked this project; and Bob Barsky, Pradeep Chhibber, John Huber, Vince Hutchings, Paul Huth, Ken Kollman, Ann Lin, Bob Pahre, Michael Ross, and Nick Winter for comments on earlier versions of this paper. Two Hands on the Wheel: Independent Central Banks, Politically Responsive Governments, and Inflation