; ; ; "ActiveFedora::Aggregation::ListSource" . a , ; "Whom Can We Trust to Run the Fed? Theoretical Support for the Founders' Views"; ; "batchuser@example.com"; "Faust, Jon"; "E52 - Monetary Policy", "N12 - Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-", "E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies"; "The Federal Reserve Act erected a unique structure of government decisionmaking, independent with elaborate rules balancing internal power. Historical evidence suggests that this outcome was a response to public conflict over inflation's redistributive powers. This paper documents and formalizes this argument: in the face of conflict over redistributive inflation, policy by majority can lead to policy that is worse, even fo the majority, than obvious alternatives. The bargaining solution of an independent board with properly balanced interests leads to a better outcome. Technically, this paper extends earlier work in making policy preferences endogenous and in extending the notion of equilibirum policy to such a world. Substantively, this work provides a simple grounding of policy preferences-largely missing heretofore-linking game theoretic models of policy to historical evidence about the formation of an independent monetary authority."^^; "1992-05"; "2018-03-29T18:42:52.104246307+00:00"^^; ; "2021-02-05T20:24:00.90967535+00:00"^^; "Conference Proceeding"; "230"; "Conference on economics and politics"; ; ; ; ; "Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department."; ; "ConferenceProceeding" . ; .