, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB … that the press critically discusses the ECB’s policy decisions in the context of prior market expectations and of the … inflation environment, and that the media’s coverage of decisions is generally highly responsive to ECB communication – in …

households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge … on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak desire to be informed and unawareness of insufficient knowledge …

and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a database of surveys of professional ECB policy forecasters in 24 …

statements and press conferences announcing monetary policy actions taken by the ECB. We find that an unexpected decrease of 25 …

This paper presents the blueprint of a new ECB multi-country model. The version documented in the following pages is … and policy simulation exercises at the ECB. …

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

Transparency has become an almost universal virtue among central banks. The paper tests empirically, for the case of … the Federal Reserve, two hypotheses about central bank transparency derived from the debate of Morris and Shin (2002) and …, but may reduce it when uncertainty is low. The findings underline the limits to transparency and stress the need for …

. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the virtue of transparency by requiring central banks to withhold … the limits to central bank transparency. …