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Behavioural Characteristics and Financial Distress

McCarthy, Yvonne - 2011

Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals' behavioural traits, such as their...

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Lifting the Banking Veil : Credit Standards’ Harmonization Through Lending Transparency

Kang, Jung Koo - 2020

We explore whether the transparency in banks' lending activities enhances the harmonization of credit terms that a bank … information on loan characteristics and performance. We find that loans originated under the transparency regime share more … convergence in their credit terms, suggesting that transparency facilitates learning across a bank's different geographic regions …

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Which kind of transparency? On the need for clarity in monetary policy-making

Winkler, Bernhard - 2000

In most of the existing academic literature the notion of transparency in monetary policy is defined in too simple … potentially conflicting - aspects of transparency. When there are frictions in communication or imperfections in the processing of … this perspective transparency primarily hinges on a shared mode of interpretation ('common understanding') between the …

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On the indeterminacy of new-Keynesian economics

Beyer, Andreas; Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2004

We study identiÞcation in a class of three-equation monetary models. We argue that these models are typically not identiÞed. For any given exactly identiÞed model, we provide an algorithm that generates a class of equivalent models that have the same reduced form. We use our algorithm to...

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Central bank transparency and private information in a dynamic macroeconomic model

Pearlman, Joseph G. - 2005

We investigate the role of economic transparency within the framework of one of Townsend’s models of ‘forecasting the …

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Transparency, disclosure and the federal reserve

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

indeed have improved transparency in the sense that information is now released to the markets at an earlier time and with …

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Quantitative goals for monetary policy

Fatás, Antonio; Mihov, Ilian; Rose, Andrew K. - 2006

We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a...

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Transparency, expectations, and forecasts

Bauer, Andrew; Eisenbeis, Robert; Waggoner, Daniel; Zha, Tao - 2006

, implying the possible effects of the FOMC’s transparency. On the other hand, we find little evidence that the common forecast …

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Monetary policy in the media

Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank’s communication with the wider public, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB monetary policy decisions receive in the print media,...

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Stale information, shocks and volatility

Gropp, Reint E.; Kadareja, Arjan - 2006

that the results have implications for debate surrounding the opacity of banks and the transparency requirements that may …

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