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1. Central Banks’ communication strategies: summary and conclusions ; 1.1. The times, they are a changing… ; 1.2. Why do central banks need to talk? ; 1.3 What should central banks talk about? ; 1.4 How should central banks talk? ; 1.5. How do central banks actually talk? -- 2. Why do central banks need to talk? ; 2.1. Introduction ; 2.2. Communication: transparency of the policy regime ; 2.3. Economic effectiveness arguments for transparency ; 2.4. The case of creative ambiguity ; 2.5 Contents of communication ; 2.6. Interest rate smoothing ; 2.7 Democratic accountability -- 3. What should central banks talk about? ; 3.1. Preliminary ; 3.2.Talking about objectives ; 3.3. Talking about methods ; 3.4. Talking about decisions ; 3.5. Communicating exchange rate policy: what is different? ; 3.6. Maintaining confidentiality ; 3.7. Conclusion -- 4. How should central banks talk? ; 4.1. The trend towards monetary policy committees ; 4.2. Communicating the decisions and proceedings of monetary policy committee meetings ; 43. Communicating the central bank’s views of future developments ; 4.4. Communicating the central bank’s views to the legislature ; 4.5. How to handle disagreement: collegial versus individualistic policy committees -- 5. How do central banks actually talk? ; 5.1 The Federal Reserve of the United States ; 5.2. The European System of Central Banks ; 5.3. The Bank of Japan ; 5.4. The Bank of England ; 5.5. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand ; 5.6. Conclusion.