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Forward-looking monetary policy communication has become a key element of flexible inflation-targeting regimes across … advanced and emerging market economies. The Reserve Bank of India’s implementation of a flexible inflation targeting framework … since 2016 has been supported by a broad set of communication tools, more recently aided by policy innovations such as …
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This paper assesses the quality of the CBC's communication policy by looking at the predictability and effectiveness of … for the three major communication channels of the CBC: the release of policy meetings' statements, minutes, and monetary … monetary policy surprises associated with meeting statements and the impact of the above communication channels on asset …
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effective monetary policy communication will only increase as China continues to liberalize its financial system and open its … markets of the PBC's main communication channels, including a novel communication channel. The results suggest that there has … been significant progress but that PBC communication is still evolving toward the level of other major economies. The paper …
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I test whether inflation targeting (IT) enhances transparency using inflation forecast data for 11 IT adoption countries. IT adoption promotes convergence in forecast errors, suggesting that it enhances transparency. This effect is robust to dropping observations, is strengthened by using...
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We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure clarity of reports by the Czech National Bank, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and Sveriges Riksbank using the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, a standard readability...
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Since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by Bank Indonesia (BI), monetary policy communication has … played an increasingly important role in BI's policy toolkit. This paper assesses BI's monetary policy communication from … significant progress in the transparency of its communication as well as in the institutional framework to support this …
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We offer a novel methodology for assessing the quality of inflation reports. In contrast to the existing literature, which mostly evaluates the formal quality of these reports, we evaluate their economic content by comparing inflation factors reported by the central banks with ex-post...
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Quantitative easing could improve market liquidity through many channels such as relaxing bank funding constraints, increasing risk appetite, and facilitating trades. However, it can also reduce market liquidity when the increase in the central bank's holdings of certain securities leads to a...
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In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational — irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated...
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Does monetary policy react systematically to macroeconomic innovations? In a sample of 16 countries - operating under various monetary regimes - we find that monetary policy decisions, as expressed in yield curve movements, do react to macroeconomic innovations and these reactions reflect the...
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