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It is widely believed that the Fed controls the funds rate by altering the degree of pressure in the reserve market through open market operations when it changes its target for the federal funds rate. Recently, however, several economists have suggested that open market operations may not be...
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Central bank communication has changed dramatically over the past decade, with some central banks providing guidance about or explicit forecasts of likely future policy rates. One frequently made argument against the provision by central banks of such guidance or forecasts is that it runs the...
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Central banks worldwide have become more transparent. An important reason is that democratic societies expect more openness from public institutions. Policymakers also see transparency as a way to improve the predictability of monetary policy, thereby lowering interest rate volatility and...
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Central banks worldwide have become more transparent. An important reason is that democratic societies expect more openness from public institutions. Policymakers also see transparency as a way to improve the predictability of monetary policy, thereby lowering interest rate volatility and...
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forecast commonly imply that the outturn is expected to lie above [below] the central forecast. Investigating the inflation … informativeness, that is, for a systematic connection between risk assessments and forecast errors. Thus, it seems questionable … whether macroeconomic risk forecasts are meaningful. -- Forecast evaluation ; risk forecasts ; inflation forecasts …
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