Disclosure of monetary policy targets reduces unemployment uncertainty at the expense of higher inflation uncertainty, thereby posing a dilemma for monetary policymakers.

In a model with fiscal policy, Hughes Hallett et al. [Hughes Hallett, A., Libich, J., Stehlík, P., 2009. Rogoff revisited: the conservative central banker proposition under active fiscal policies. Economics Letters 104, 140–143] challenge the relevance of the conservative central banker...

Optimal delegation restores the beneficial effects of non-accommodating monetary policy when the central bank is allowed to be not fully transparent about its response to wages.