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identify the higher volatility of the rates as the signalling effect of monetary policy communication. This, we argue, suggests … communication strategy …
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Monetary policy communication is particularly important during unconventional times, because high uncertainty about the … predictability of policy actions. We study how monetary policy communication should and has worked under such circumstances. Our main …
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Monetary policy communication is particularly important during unconventional times, because high uncertainty about the … predictability of policy actions. We study how monetary policy communication should and has worked under such circumstances. Our main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011755761
set of professional forecasts of financial and macroeconomic variables. More communication even increases forecast errors …
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(ii) a large divergence of tone after 2009. The ECB communication becomes persistently more optimistic and less uncertain …-term interest rates respond less strongly to a monetary policy shock if ECB-Bundesbank communication is more cacophonous than on …
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This paper provides an empirical assessment of the power of forward guidance at different horizons, shedding new light on the strength of the "forward guidance puzzle". Our identification strategy allows us to disentangle the change in future interest rates stemming from deviations from the...
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This paper studies monetary policy committee transparency (MPCT) based on a new index that measures central bankers' educational and professional backgrounds as disclosed through central bank websites. Based on a novel cross-sectional data set covering 75 central banks, we investigate the...
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This paper studies the effects of ECB communications about unconventional monetary policy operations on the perceived sovereign risk of Italy over the last five years. More than fifty events concerning non-standard operations are identified and classified with respect to the specific ECB...
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Using intra-day data, we assess the impact of the press release on euro area monetary data on the different segments of the euro area yield curve. For this purpose, we estimate a relation between the "news" or "surprise" in the released data for annual M3 growth and the move in the interest...
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We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central … composition depending on the communication channel used by central banks. Non-monetary news prevails in about 40% of policy …
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