New Advantages of Tying One’s Hands: Financial Supervision, Monetary Policy and Central Bank Independence

We investigate the reasons that induce policymakers to assign banking supervision to central banks rather than involving authorities outside the banking sector. On the one hand, empirical results provide evidence that policymakers prefer that, conditional on several known features affecting supervisory task assignment, the latter are better to be given to central banks.

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