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We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote … financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find … that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s, though it still varied greatly across the countries in our study …
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We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote … financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find … that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s, though it still varied greatly across the countries in our study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583832
We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote … financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find … that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s, though it still varied greatly across the countries in our study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322299
We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote … financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find … that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s, though it still varied greatly across the countries in our study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374311
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322966
There has been a remarkable rise in the transparency of monetary policy during the last two decades. This paper …. Furthermore, it reviews the theoretical literature on monetary policy transparency and relevant empirical findings. The focus is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737509
one is transparency of actual monetary policy, the second aspect is the question of who bears final responsibility for …. Transparency enhances the central bank’s accountability. Another way to make the central bank accountable is to shift final … central bank lower. The paper shows that accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092603
We examine “Forward Guidance Contracts”, which make central bankers’ utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a exible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity...
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: transparency of actual monetary policy and the question of who bears final responsibility for monetary policy. The paper shows that … accountability through transparency leads to a lower expected rate of inflation and less stabilization of supply shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295694
There has been a remarkable rise in the transparency of monetary policy during the last two decades. This paper …. Furthermore, it reviews the theoretical literature on monetary policy transparency and relevant empirical findings. The focus is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333377