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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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In this paper, we analyze how lack of credibility and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies undermines the … credible and lack transparency. If policies are imperfectly credible, then transparency helps private agents to learn the …-country evidence that monetary policy transparency and fiscal credibility reduce the incidence of export price volatility on output …
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895467
This paper examines whether the clarity of central bank communication about inflation varies with the economic environment. Using readability statistics and content analysis, we study the clarity of communication on the inflation outlook by seven central banks across three continents during the...
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How does transparency, a key feature of central bank design, affect the deliberation of monetary policymakers? We … (particularly Latent Dirichlet Allocation) to measure the effect of increased transparency on debate. Commentators have hypothesized … the career concerns literature uncovers evidence for both effects. However, the net effect of increased transparency …
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To evaluate whether transparency is beneficial, it is usual to assume that the central bank may choose one of two … inflation announcements. Therefore, even if transparency is preferred over secrecy the central bank cannot credibly commit to … truth-telling, in contrast to what is commonly assumed in the literature on transparency. …
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. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic …
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. Nowadays, we can observe an increasing trend upon central bank transparency, for evaluating more accurate the central bank … the construction of the most important indices regarding central bank independence, transparency and accountability in a … the necessity for constructing an aggregate index for measuring central bank independence, transparency and accountability …
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This publication reviews recent developments in East Asian local currency bond markets along with the outlook, risks, and policy options. It covers the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus the People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; and the Republic of Korea.
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This paper models the tradeoff, perceived by central banks and other public actors, between providing the public with useful information and the risk of overwhelming it with excessive communication. An information authority chooses how many signals to provide regarding an aggregate state and...
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