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Credit spreads rise after a monetary policy tightening, yet spread reactions are heterogeneous across firms. Exploiting information from a panel of corporate bonds matched with balance sheet data for U.S. non-financial firms, we document that firms with high leverage experience a more pronounced...
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around FOMC announcements. Consistent with the stock price results, instrumental variable local projections confirm that the …
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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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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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; this means that the central bank may prefer to focus its communication policies on the information it knows most about …
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methodology for the empirical evaluation of consistency in central bank communication. We find that the three communication tools …
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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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The Bank of Japan has introduced various unconventional monetary policy tools since the launch of Abenomics in 2013, to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent inflation. In this paper, a forward-looking open-economy general equilibrium model with endogenously determined policy...
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How should a central bank organize itself to produce the best possible inflation forecast? This paper discusses … of a suitable statistical apparatus, and the exercise of sound communication strategies to reinforce reputation and …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the information content of money in forecasting euro-area inflation. We compare the predictive performance within and among various classes of structural and empirical models in a consistent framework using...
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