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We study the effects of Central Bank transparency on inflation and the output gap. We thus identify a small analytical …
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literature is that being transparent about its operations and beliefs hinders the central bank in achieving the best outcome. In … other words, a central bank needs flexibility and therefore cannot be fully transparent. Using a forward-looking New …-Keynesian model, we find exactly the opposite. A central bank that is conservative improves output stabilization by being transparent …
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be willing or able to process all the information that the central bank provides. In this paper, we explicitly take the …The central bank's influence on private sector expectations is an important channel of monetary policy. Therefore, it … is important for a central bank to pay attention to its communication. It should also be aware that the public might not …
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We study the effects of Central Bank transparency on inflation and the output gap. We thus first identify a small …
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We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure … clarity of reports by the Czech National Bank, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and Sveriges Riksbank using the …
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Our objective is to identify a way of checking empirically the extent to which expectations are de-coupled from inflation, how well they might be anchored in the long run, and at what level. This methodology allows us then to identify a measure for the degree of anchorness, and as anchored...
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Although some authors have suggested that monetary expansion is still possible when the monetary policy interest rate cannot be reduced further, central banks tend to avoid interest rates close to the zero lower bound. Taking into account central banks.aversion to very low interest rates, we...
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One of the main criticisms on the original Taylor rule is the so-called real time critique; because data on especially the output gap are only available after some quarters the original Taylor rule is not operational. Moreover, Taylor rules estimated with ex post revised data could result in...
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This paper examines whether the clarity of central bank communication about inflation has changed with the economic …, however, did have a negative impact on clarity of central bank communication. …
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We investigate whether ECB balance sheet policy announcements in the wake of the global financial crisis have affected the ECB.s monetary policy credibility as measured by long-term inflation expectations, by looking at their effects on euro area inflation swap rates of maturities up to 10...
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