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 …

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform
postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style …

To what extent and how do agencies manage their reputations through the strategic use of
communication? Under what conditions are regulators inclined to respond to external …

Previous scholarship on central bank accountability has generally focused on monetary
authorities' deeds and words while largely ignoring the other side of the accountability …

This paper addresses the impact of monetary policy on banks' risk-taking by using bank-
level panel data from more than 1000 banks in 29 emerging economies during 2000–2012 …

Despite increasing communication efforts, it may be difficult for central banks to engage the
public, as their language is often too difficult to understand for most citizens. Focusing on the …

Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this knowledge relevant? Based on
a survey of Dutch households, we find that knowledge about the European Central Bank's …

Should central banks increase their degree of transparency any further? We show that there
is likely to be an optimal intermediate degree of central bank transparency. Up to this …

This paper probes the limits of transparency in monetary policymaking along two
dimensions: feasibility and desirability. It argues that, due to limited knowledge about the …

The literature on transparency and central bank communication and the literature on
disagreement about expectations are evolving; however, both have been evolving …