Crafting consensus why central bankers change their speech and how speech changes the economy
'Crafting Consensus' offers a new theory of committee decision making and provides a rich understanding of modern-day central banking by studying central banks' communication with the public. Using extensive empirical analysis, Nicole Baerg explains how central bank transparency depen...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2020, 2020
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online / Oxford scholarship online
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 'Crafting Consensus' offers a new theory of committee decision making and provides a rich understanding of modern-day central banking by studying central banks' communication with the public. Using extensive empirical analysis, Nicole Baerg explains how central bank transparency depends on the configuration of central bank committee members' preferences and the institutional rules governing how committee members set policy. The text shows that monetary policy committees comprised of bankers with opposing inflation preferences communicate more precisely and that precise communication then has positive economic effects |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9780190499518 |