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The Fed's response to economic news explains the "Fed information effect”
Bauer, Michael D.; Swanson, Eric T. - 2020
High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are a standard method of measuring monetary policy shocks. However, some recent studies have documented puzzling effects of these shocks on private-sector forecasts of GDP, unemployment, or inflation that are opposite in sign to...
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Central bank communication with the general public
Dräger, Lena - 2023
This paper surveys the literature on the role and effects of central bank communication with the general public … "communication revolution" in central bank communication. The challenges for central bank communication with the public are outlined … evaluate the effects of direct communication, distinguishing between challenges to getting the attention of the public and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014384011
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Can the Central Bank alleviate fiscal burdens?
Reis, Ricardo - 2017
Central banks affect the resources available to fiscal authorities through the impact of their policies on the public debt, as well as through their income, their mix of assets, their liabilities, and their own solvency. This paper inspects the ability of the central bank to alleviate the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704682
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Monetary policy transparency
Geraats, Petra M. - 2014
There has been a remarkable rise in the transparency of monetary policy during the last two decades. This paper provides an overview of the ways in which central banks have been providing more information about their monetary policymaking. Furthermore, it reviews the theoretical literature on...
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Fighting inflation more effectively without transferring central banks' profits to banks
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2023
The major central banks now operate in a regime of abundance of bank reserves. As a result, they can only raise the money market rate by increasing the rate of remuneration of bank reserves. This, in turn, leads to large transfers of the central banks' profits (and more) to commercial banks that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422581
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Equilibrium contracts for the central bank of a monetary union
Dixit, Avinash K.; Jensen, Henrik - 2000
We consider the political economy of a monetary union wheremember governments attempt to influence the policy of the commoncentral bank. Modeling this as a common agency with incentivecontracts, we show that if incentives are all that matters for the bank,the equilibrium implements a weighted...
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619626
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Monetary policy surprises and exchange rate behavior
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kara, Ali Hakan; Kısacıkoğlu, … - 2020
Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...
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Media treatment of monetary policy surprises and their impact on firms' and consumers' expectations
Pinter, Julien; Kočenda, Evžen - 2023
Do firms' and consumers' expectations react to central bank announcements? Past literature has come to divergent conclusions, but it has systematically ignored how media treat the announcements. This paper investigates the link between monetary policy announcements and expectations by taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014267174
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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2009
central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President's introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. -- ECB ; central bank ; communication …
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