La transparence est devenue l'un des piliers des banques centrales et des institutions internationales afin d'accroître leur efficacité. Dans cet article, nous nous interrogeons sur le bien fondé de cette stratégie en proposant une synthèse de la littérature existante. A partir de...

L'implication du secteur privé dans la résolution des crises de liquidité est un des thèmes les plus ardemment débattus au sein de la nouvelle Architecture Financière Internationale. Face aux critiques que subit l'approche au cas par cas préconisée par le secteur officiel et à...

This paper addresses the question of whether public information destabilises the economy in the context of signals of different nature. We present an experimental evaluation of the speculative attack game of Morris and Shin (1998). Our objective is twofold: to evaluate whether public information...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate to what extent more transparency can reduce the occurrence of speculative attacks. It proposes a survey of the literature about the pros and cons of transparency on the exchange rate market, which is one of the main pillars of the new international financial...

This paper addresses the question whether public information destabilises the economy in the context of signals of different nature. We present an experiment on the speculative attack game of Morris and Shin (1998). Our objective is double: (i) evaluating whether public information destabilises...

Le modèle de Morris et Shin [2002] montre que des annonces publiques imprécises peuvent coordonner les spéculateurs loin de la solution fondamentale par un phénomène de sur-réaction aux annonces. Le fort potentiel focal exercé par la connaissance commune est dommageable au bien-être...

[fre] Jean-Pierre Allegret Camille Cornand La politique de diffusion de l'information : la transparence des banques centrales est-elle toujours préférable ? La transparence est devenue l'un des piliers des banques centrales et des institutions internationales afin d'accroître leur...

Relying on the recent literature, we propose an informational interpretation to the recent financial crisis. We adopt a twofold point of view. On the one hand, we analyze the difficulties associated with the inability of economic and financial agents to deal with information and with the lack of...

In games with strategic complementarities, public information about the state of the world has a larger impact on equilibrium actions than private information of the same precision, because public signals are more informative about the likely behavior of others. We present an experiment in which...

In games with strategic complementarities, public information about the state of the world has a larger impact on equilibrium actions than private information of the same precision, because the former is more informative about the likely behavior of others. This may lead to welfare-reducing...