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Transparency, disclosure and the federal reserve

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2005

markets anticipated monetary policy decisions equally well under this new disclosure regime than before, but arrived at their … implications of macroeconomic data releases. Taken together, these findings suggest that the Fed's new disclosure practice may … indeed have improved transparency in the sense that information is now released to the markets at an earlier time and with …

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On the measurement of foreign direct investment and its relationship to activities of multinational corporations

Wacker, Konstantin M. - European Central Bank - 2013

This paper discusses the different concepts of measuring multinational corporations' activities to provide empirical researchers helpful guidelines about which measures to use in their work. I discuss which economic relations exist between the measures and show that a tight relationship can be...

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Implications for liquidity from innovation and transparency in the European corporate bond market

Laganá, Marco; Perina, Martin; Köppen-Mertes, Isabel von - European Central Bank - 2006

and transparency for liquidity of corporate bond markets. We have applied it to the illiquid segments of the European … systemic liquidity. We also found that post-trade transparency has surprisingly little bearing on liquidity in that where it … improves liquidity it is merely acting as a proxy for pre-trade transparency or transparency of holdings. We conclude that if …

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Quantitative goals for monetary policy

Fatás, Antonio; Mihov, Ilian; Rose, Andrew K. - European Central Bank - 2006

We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a...

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How much does the public know about the ECB's monetary policy? Evidence from a survey of Dutch households

van der Cruijsen, Carin; Jansen, David-Jan; de Haan, Jakob - European Central Bank - 2010

Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a...

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Purdah: on the rationale for central bank silence around policy meetings

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2008

. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the virtue of transparency by requiring central banks to withhold … the limits to central bank transparency. JEL Classification: E58, E52, E43 …

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Stale information, shocks and volatility

Gropp, Reint; Kadareja, Arjan - European Central Bank - 2006

that the results have implications for debate surrounding the opacity of banks and the transparency requirements that may …

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The role of central bank transparency for guiding private sector forecasts

Ehrmann, Michael; Eijffinger, Sylvester; Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2010

expectations. This paper analyses empirically whether enhanced central bank transparency lowers dispersion among professional … forecasters of key economic variables, using a large set of proxies for central bank transparency in 12 advanced economies. It … finds evidence for a significant and sizeable effect of central bank transparency on forecast dispersion, be it by means of …

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Gauging the effectiveness of quantitative forward guidance: evidence from three inflation targeters

Andersson, Magnus; Hofmann, Boris - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the performances of the forward guidance strategies adopted by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the Norges Bank and the Riksbank, with the aim to gauge whether forward guidance via publication of an own interest rate path enhances a central bank’s...

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Central bank transparency and private information in a dynamic macroeconomic model

Pearlman, Joseph G. - European Central Bank - 2005

We investigate the role of economic transparency within the framework of one of Townsend’s models of ‘forecasting the …

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