Louis Raes

TL;DR: Practical limits to the predictability of life outcomes in some settings are suggested and the value of mass collaborations in the social sciences is illustrated.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed revealed policy preferences in monetary policy committees of the Bank of England and found that internal committee members tend to hold centrist policy preferences while pronounced policy preferences are generally held by external members.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the voting records of four central banks (Sweden, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic) with spatial models of voting and uses these to analyze the evolution in preferences over time and the differences in preferences between member types and the position of the Governor in different monetary policy committees.

TL;DR: The authors used stated preferences from FOMC transcipts and estimate a hierarchical spatial voting model to estimate the ideal points of Bank Presidents and Board Governors at the FOMCC.

TL;DR: This article analyzed revealed policy preferences of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England and found that internal committee members tend to hold centrist policy preferences while more extreme policy preferences, both hawkish and dovish, are generally held by external members.