Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence /
Blinder, Alan S.
Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence / Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob De Haan, David-Jan Jansen. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w13932 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13932. .
April 2008.
Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it written in this decade. We survey this ever-growing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important and powerful part of the central bank's toolkit since it has the ability to move financial markets, to enhance the predictability of monetary policy decisions, and potentially to help achieve central banks' macroeconomic objectives. However, the large variation in communication strategies across central banks suggests that a consensus has yet to emerge on what constitutes an optimal communication strategy.
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Central Bank Communication and Monetary Policy: A Survey of Theory and Evidence / Alan S. Blinder, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher, Jakob De Haan, David-Jan Jansen. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w13932 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13932. .
April 2008.
Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly important aspect of monetary policy. These real-world developments have spawned a huge new scholarly literature on central bank communication -- mostly empirical, and almost all of it written in this decade. We survey this ever-growing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important and powerful part of the central bank's toolkit since it has the ability to move financial markets, to enhance the predictability of monetary policy decisions, and potentially to help achieve central banks' macroeconomic objectives. However, the large variation in communication strategies across central banks suggests that a consensus has yet to emerge on what constitutes an optimal communication strategy.
System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.