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This paper summarizes the results of a Survey on Monetary policy Communication conducted among central banks in Central … transparency and communication strategies of the central banks. The results of the Survey reveal that today the central banks pay … process. The overall conclusion of the Monetary policy communication Survey is that the communication and the transparency of …
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-generating process. We show that the stronger the coordination motive behind agents' behaviour is, the more they use private or public … signals in the way that they suspect others are doing it. Consequently, the negative impact of public communication noted by … public signal at all, which suggests that there is a scope to "obliterate" public communication in a specific way, by making …
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John Maynard Keynes (1930) asserted that the central bank sways the long-term interest rate through the influence of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. Recent empirical research shows that Keynes's conjecture holds for long-term Treasury yields in the United States. This paper...
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In this paper we analyze changes in the Federal Reserve behavior and objectives since the1960s justified by potentially evolving beliefs—through a real-time learning process—aboutthe structure of the economy and shifts in policymakers' preferences in the late 1970s. In addition, we allow for...
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their assessment of central bank communication skills and success in conveying objectives as well as the importance of … and their overall communication skills on the one hand, and market participants' perception of the banks' predictability …
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their assessment of central bank communication skills and success in conveying objectives as well as the importance of … and their overall communication skills on the one hand, and market participants' perception of the banks' predictability …
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About half of professional forecasters report that they use the natural rate of unemployment (u*) to forecast. I show that forecasters' reported use of and estimates of u* are informative about their expectations-formation process, including their use of a Phillips curve. Those who report not...
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This paper studies the reaction of the mean and volatility of the euro-dollar exchange rate to statements of ECB officials during the first years of EMU. We focus on statements on monetary policy and the (potential) strength of the euro. We find that the Bundesbank has dominated the news...
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There has been a remarkable rise in the transparency of monetary policy during the last two decades. This paper provides an overview of the ways in which central banks have been providing more information about their monetary policymaking. Furthermore, it reviews the theoretical literature on...
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