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It is argued in literature that transparency may be detrimental to welfare. Morris and Shin (2002) suggest reducing the …
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This paper studies monetary policy under discretion when the central bank ex ante determines information to be acquired and made public. In a general setting, wherein a monetary instrument signals the central bank's private information, I show that an optimal information policy comprises the...
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desirable. We show that opacity may lead to the same equilibrium as transparency. However, additional equilibria may emerge … and its effects on inflation and output. In this case, transparency has ambiguous effects. It reduces output variance and … the distortions stemming from heterogeneous information. However, transparency generally raises the variance of inflation …
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A benevolent planner chooses optimally whether and how to disclose publicly a private forecast of fundamentals to a large number of informed small agents. These agents interact in economic environments with information frictions, strategic complementarity or substitutability in actions, and a...
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Although it is generally accepted that consumer confidence measures are informative signals about the state of the economy, theoretical macroeconomic models designed for the analysis of monetary policy typically do not provide a role for them. I develop a framework with asymmetric information in...
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partial transparency policy. We show that a partial publicity policy is more effective in improving social welfare than a … partial transparency policy. We also show that the highest level of social welfare can be achieved using only a partial …
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' unease when disseminating news to the markets and argues against the recent trend of demanding full transparency both for …
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complements, for which case it has been argued that too much transparency might induce agents to neglect their private knowledge …. -- transparency ; private information ; common knowledge …
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public instead of denying access to public information. -- transparency ; private information ; common knowledge …
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This paper performs a welfare analysis of economies with private information when public information is endogenously generated and agents can condition on noisy public statistics in the rational expectations tradition. We find that equilibrium is not (restricted) efficient even when feasible...
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