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We consider a standard result of customer market theory: if firms have stable customer relations and face financial frictions, they may keep prices relatively high on their locked-in shoppers to maintain short-term profits at the expense of future market shares in times of low demand and vice...
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to revert to other types of Fed communication in the inter-meeting periods, and come to their own assessment of the …
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The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central … Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking … process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal Reserve has been pursuing a rather individualistic communication …
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Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real …-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication —mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this evergrowing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …
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during the 2007-10 financial crisis. The findings suggest that financial stability communication by central banks are … perceived by markets to contain relevant information, and they underline the importance of differentiating between communication …
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While the established literature on central bank communication has traditionally dealt with communication of monetary … policy messages to financial markets and the wider public, central bank communication on fiscal policy has so far received … little attention. This paper empirically reviews the intensity of central banks' fiscal communication by five central banks …
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Why do long-run interest rates respond to central bank communication? Whereas existing explanations imply a common set …-run rates and operate primarily through the term premium. This suggests communication plays an important role in shaping …
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that communication plays a significant role in enhancing the accuracy when trying to estimate the bank's reaction function …
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Press releases announcing and explaining monetary policy decisions play a critical role in the communication strategy …
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Central banks have intensified their communication with non-experts – an endeavour which some have argued is bound to … fail. This paper studies English and German Twitter traffic about the ECB to understand whether its communication is … received by non-experts and how it affects their views. It shows that Twitter traffic is responsive to ECB communication, also …
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