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We study a model of financial intermediation, payment choice, and privacy in the digital economy. Cash preserves anonymity but cannot be used for more efficient online transactions. By contrast, bank deposits can be used online but do not preserve anonymity. Banks use the information contained...
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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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