history of honesty and a high level of central bank independence. According to our respondents, the Federal Reserve is the … most credible, transparent and independent central bank out of seven large central banks. The ECB is not perceived as …

central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. -- ECB ; central bank ; communication …

size and voting power. One way to implement this principle is a rotation scheme for national central bank governors that …

-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. counterpart, Current Population Survey. Our focus is … core employees (employees of prime age of 30-44 who have already accumulated at least five years of tenure) in Japan were … remarkably stable at around 70 percent over the last twenty-five years, and there is little evidence that Japan's Great Recession …

-term consequences for the labor market structure. To this end, we examine Japan's Lost Decade, the original Great Recession that … during Japan's Lost Decade there was a significant shift of the composition of employment toward "bad jobs." Second, we find … women in Japan made considerable progress in shifting the composition of their employment toward "good jobs" during Japan …

This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard …