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Demiralp, Selva; Kara, Hakan; Özlü, Pınar - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 540-556

This paper assesses the effectiveness of monetary policy communication of the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) by quantifying the information content of its policy statements released right after the monthly Monetary Policy Committee meetings. First, we quantify the signal regarding the next...

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Managing financial market expectations: The role of central bank transparency and central bank communication

Neuenkirch, Matthias - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 1-13

In this paper, we study the influence of central bank transparency and informal central bank communication on the …, first, that transparency reduces the bias in money market expectations and dampens their variation. Second, informal … the Eijffinger and Geraats (2006) transparency index lead to a smaller bias in expectations (in particular, evaluation of …

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What's in a second opinion? Shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Siklos, Pierre L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 135-148

One way of evaluating how well monetary authorities perform is to provide the public with a regular and independent second opinion. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE) are shadowed by professional and academic economists who provide a separate policy rate recommendation...

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