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The question how best to communicate monetary policy decisions remains a highly topical issue among central banks. Focusing on the experience of the European Central Bank, this paper studies how explanations of monetary policy decisions at press conferences are perceived by financial markets....
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dollar. The findings suggest that communication hinting at a weakening of EMEs’ US dollar focus contributed substantially to … more cautious in their communication more recently. Overall, the results underscore the growing systemic importance of EMEs …
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The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates … evidence that communication and actual interventions tend to be successful in moving exchange rates in the desired direction …
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. The paper finds that official communication, as reported by wire services, are effective in influencing the US dollar …
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to revert to other types of Fed communication in the inter-meeting periods, and come to their own assessment of the …
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The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central … Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking … process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal Reserve has been pursuing a rather individualistic communication …
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The paper shows that central bank communication is a key determinant of the market’s ability to anticipate monetary … policy decisions and the future path of interest rates. Comparing communication policies by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of …, individualistic communication regarding the economic outlook is found to be beneficial for the Federal Reserve, enabling market …
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potentially conflicting - aspects of transparency. When there are frictions in communication or imperfections in the processing of … information, greater 'openness' (i.e. more information) need not always enhance the 'clarity' of central bank communication. In …
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Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real …-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication —mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this evergrowing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …
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financial market volatility after FOMC meetings. Finally, Fed communication may exert an influence on forecast accuracy. JEL …
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