出版社:Economic Laboratory for Transition Research Podgorica
摘要:Although the countries of Southeast Europe are connected in many
ways, there are a lot differences among them with reference to development
of the market economy, and especially in the way of conducting
of the monetary policy and achieving of the price stability.
The subject of this article's research is the actual central bank independence
and its impact on monetary stability in the specific environment
of Southeast European countries. Therefore, we applied it
TOR as a research method because shorter average duration of the
mandate of a central bank governor can be an obstacle for conducting
of the monetary policy in the long run, as in such a case central
bank would be less interested in obtaining its primary goal – keeping
of monetary stability. The main hypothesis in this study is that
there was a significant influence of the actual central bank independence
to monetary stability, regardless of different implementations
of the monetary policies of the central banks of the observed countries.
We have used statistical methods to prove the hypotheses and
then we gave an adequate explanation of the research results. The
result of our research has shown that in the period 2000-2016, despite
their differences, actual independence of the respective central
banks was strengthening, while the inflation rate in the countries of
the Southeast Europe was decreasing, but the connection between
the two was weak. However, we have established that in the Southeast
European countries in the end relatively higher degree of the
actual independence of their central banks has been obtained, as
well as lower inflation rate in 2016, while their negative correlation
has become very strong. The observed countries can have obtained
their monetary stability greatly thanks to the higher degree of the actual
independence of their respective central banks, but at the same
the independence by itself is not enough to keep the inflation rate
at the desired rate, like the one requested by Maastricht's criteria.
In modern circumstances lower inflation rate can depend on some
other factors, such as political lobbies, mutual adjustment of fiscal
and monetary policies, imperfection of the labour market, national
culture of the inflation, etc.
关键词:inflation;
monetary policy;
monetary stability;
actual CBI;
TOR