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We measure the tone (sentiment) of the ECB's Governing Council regarding economic outlook at the time of each monetary … policy meeting and use this information together with the Eurosystem/ECB staff macroeconomic projections to directly estimate … estimations, that the ECB has been either more averse to inflation above 2% ceiling or that the de facto inflation aim has been …
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turnaround in monetary policy pursuits and a rapid rise in reference interest rates. The FED reacted much faster than the ECB and …
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turnaround in monetary policy pursuits and a rapid rise in reference interest rates. The FED reacted much faster than the ECB and …
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Anchored inflation expectations help stabilize inflation. Previous results indicate that monetary policy has been effective in breaking the link between actual and expected inflation at the euro area level. In this paper we examine whether this is also true at the national level. We define the...
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This paper studies actual house prices relative to fundamental house prices. Using UK data and a time-varying present value approach, we find that deviations of house prices fromtheir fundamental value (as warranted by real disposable income) are significant but not dominated by speculative...
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literature considers transparency a means to establish central bank's credibility. The contribution of this paper is twofold …. Indeed, the degree of central bank's transparency influences the effectiveness of its policy to stabilize inflation in terms …-push shocks. Second, it stresses that transparency is not just a means to achieve credibility but is essential per se for the …
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literature considers transparency a means to establish central bank’s credibility. The contribution of this paper is twofold …. Indeed, the degree of central bank’s transparency influences the effectiveness of its policy to stabilize inflation in terms …-push shocks. Second, it stresses that transparency is not just a means to achieve credibility but is essential per se for the …
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This paper studies monetary policy committee transparency (MPCT) based on a new index that measures central bankers … variables and institutional transparency, as well as instrumenting MPCT in various ways. …
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caused by uncertainty about the economic disturbances to which the central bank responds. Only perfect transparency about …
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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 …
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