Easing. The European Central Bank (ECB) took a step forward with its peers and, in addition to buying sovereign bonds through …

serves as a substitute for commitment, enabling the central bank to achieve the efficient Ramsey equilibrium and avoid the … inefficient, time-inconsistent one-shot Nash equilibrium. We find that reputation is a poor substitute for commitment. We then … explore whether central bank cheap talk, policy transparency, both cheap talk and policy transparency or economic transparency …