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Until about more than a decade ago, central banks were traditionally run by individual governors. However that trend has changed and countries have started to establish monetary policy committees. Potential disadvantage of an individualistic committee (i.e., through voting) over collegial...
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Among the most notable, but least discussed, hallmarks of what I have called the "quiet revolution" in central banking practice (Blinder, 2004a) has been the movement toward making monetary policy decisions by committee. Until about a decade ago, most central banks had a single governor, who...
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expressions. Using a simple persuasion game, we argue that the use of ambiguity in communication by the central bank can be seen …
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consiste en un modelo de elección discreta (probit dinámico) que considera los cambios discretos y poco frecuentes en la tasa …
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In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of the monetary policy stance by the Bank of Spain over the period 1984-1998, by means of modelling a marked point process explaining the probability of an intervention at each point in time (events) and the size of these...
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It is something of a puzzle that politicians around the world have chosen to give up power to independent central banks, thereby reducing their possibilities to fine-tune the economy. In this paper the determinants of central bank independence (CBI) reforms are studied using a new data set on...
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central banks. Overall, our results suggest that central bank communication contains systematic biases that could lead to …
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We quantify the informational content of statements issued by the interest-rate setting committee of the Central Bank of Brazil (COPOM), building on the methodology developed by Lucca and Trebbi (2011). Using Google search queries, we measure the extent to which each COPOM statement is perceived...
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that communication plays a significant role in enhancing the accuracy when trying to estimate the bank's reaction function. …
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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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