Macroeconomic information used by agents and policymakers for decision making and macroeconomic information used by researchers to evaluate the transparency of such decisions may not be comparable as the latter are continuously revised and updated as more information is known. This work compares...

We study optimal monetary policy in an environment in which firms' pricing and production decisions are subject to informational frictions. Our framework accommodates multiple formalizations of these frictions, including dispersed private information, sticky information, and certain forms of...

Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the...