Journal Article
Announcements and the Role of Policy Guidance
Abstract: By providing guidance about future economic developments, central banks can affect private sector expectations and decisions. This can improve welfare by reducing private sector forecast errors, but it can also magnify the impact of noise in central bank forecasts. I employ a model of heterogeneous information to compare outcomes under opaque and transparent monetary policies. While better central bank information is always welfare improving, more central bank information may not be.
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Part of Series: Review
Publication Date: 2013
Issue: Nov
Pages: 575-600