Central Bank Economic Research: Output, Demand, Productivity, and Relevance

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
576
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E59, A11
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

The economic research of 30 central banks in OECD and Latin America countries from 2000 to 2007 is evaluated in this study. An international comparison based on four indexes that measure central bank research output, demand, productivity and relevance is