Why money talks and wealth whispers: Monetary uncertainty and mystique - A comment by Roel M.W.J. Beetsma and Henrik Jensen

We demonstrate that in important cases Propositions 3 and 4 in Eijffinger, Hoeberichts, and Schaling (Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, May 2000) may fail. Moreover. their monetary policy delegation arrangement, which advocates that central banker preference uncertainty may be desirable. is dominated by other arrangements without any such uncertainty. Finally their way of modelling preference uncertainty leads to arbitrary effects on average monetary policy. Without these, preference uncertainty never desirable.