Press releases announcing and explaining monetary policy decisions play a critical role in the communication strategy …

. This article surveys a rapidly-growing literature on central bank communication with the public. We first discuss why and … how such communication is more challenging than communicating with expert audiences. Then we survey the empirical evidence …

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 …

decision-makers, and that attributed communication can mitigate some of their effects. …

This paper investigates the impact of ECB communication of its assessment of the economic outlook on ex-ante inflation … uncertainty and sheds light on how central bank information shocks operate. The paper finds that ECB communication of new outlook … they are also useful for policymakers to define a communication strategy that attenuates ex-ante inflation uncertainty in …

Monetary policy communication is particularly important during unconventional times, because high uncertainty about the … predictability of policy actions. We study how monetary policy communication should and has worked under such circumstances. Our main …

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 …

that communication plays a significant role in enhancing the accuracy when trying to estimate the bank's reaction function. …

This paper examines whether central bank communication stabilises euro area inflation expectations through the … visitors' attention to its communication. We conduct several econometric tests with daily data to measure the impact of ECB … communication on the information demand of the public and ultimately on inflation expectations. Overall, this study shows that …