(ii) a large divergence of tone after 2009. The ECB communication becomes persistently more optimistic and less uncertain …-term interest rates respond less strongly to a monetary policy shock if ECB-Bundesbank communication is more cacophonous than on …

firms types of communication, which significantly affect strategic behaviour and absorptive capacity. Field research … concerns 163 firms distributed over 6 industrial clusters in three Western European countries (Germany, Italy, and UK …

communication between their boards. This paper studies such networks using the framework of a previous paper by Laan et al. (Soc … Netw Anal Min, 2016. doi:10.1007/s13278-016-0326-0) where close communication is defined by sub-networks, so that each pair … conform three levels of close communication in social networks. They are all contained within the disjoint boroughs of a …