This paper investigates the impact of ECB communication of its assessment of the economic outlook on ex-ante inflation … uncertainty and sheds light on how central bank information shocks operate. The paper finds that ECB communication of new outlook … they are also useful for policymakers to define a communication strategy that attenuates ex-ante inflation uncertainty in …

This paper investigates the financial market effects of the ECB's communication on the Pandemic Emergency Purchase … Programme (PEPP). Using data for 10 euro area countries, we first analyse the impact of different communication channels such as … whether spreads react differently to communication by specific ECB Executive Board members. Markets turn out to be sensitive …