A complementary note on the issue of time inconsistency revisited as an extended game

Journal article: Cellini and Lambertini endogenize through a timing game the moves of the central bank and the private sector in a model of monetary policy la Barro and Gordon. They find a multiplicity of equilibria, as the two Stackelberg outcomes emerge as the solutions of the timing game, with different inflation levels. By using the risk-dominance criterion to select the equilibrium we prove that there is a discontinuity in the inflation bias, depending on the inflation aversion of the private sector.

Author(s)

Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, Hubert Kempf

Journal
  • International Game Theory Review
Date of publication
  • 2011
Keywords JEL
E52 E61
Keywords
  • Risk Dominance
  • Endogenous timing
  • First-second-mover advantage
  • Monetary policy
  • Time consistency
Pages
  • 475-480
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 13