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 …

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 …

the effects different communication strategies have on financial markets. It is shown that the communication strategy of … shown that communication in the form of voting records has the greatest effect on market participants' near term policy … expectations. These results support findings of the empirical literature and have strong implications for the optimal communication …

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 …

central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President's introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …

central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President's introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …

to revert to other types of Fed communication in the inter-meeting periods, and come to their own assessment of the …