This paper tries to survey the independence of Central Bank of Iran and its relationship to inflation by using the data of 56 developing countries during 1990s. The results signifies that there are no significant relationship between inflation and the independence of central banks in these countries. In other words, according to the existing evidences, not all the developing countries with high...

Over the past two decades, central banks throughout the world have been moving towards greater transparency about policy decisions, the targets that they seek to achieve through those decisions, and their economic outlook of likely future changes. The Central Bank transparency is likely to be of great importance in increasing the effectiveness of monetary policy and reducing macroeconomic volat...