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Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether showing German respondents a graph plotting the European Central Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The treatment has, on average, no significant effect on the...
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
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The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...
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We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...
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There has been a remarkable rise in the transparency of monetary policy during the last two decades. This paper …. Furthermore, it reviews the theoretical literature on monetary policy transparency and relevant empirical findings. The focus is …
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. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic …
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Transparency has become one of the main features of monetary policymaking during the last decade. This paper … establishes some stylized facts. In addition, it provides a systematic overview of the practice of monetary policy transparency … framework, including inflation targeting. Nevertheless, the paper finds significant differences in transparency across monetary …
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Transparency has become a prominent feature of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of central bank … communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …
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This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of …
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This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB's Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
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