Central bank communication has increased significantly over the past two decades and has continued to evolve since the onset of the financial crisis. We first discuss the theoretical and empirically measured merits of central bank transparency. We then survey the communication practices of...

The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP), introduced in late 2011, is one of the key components of the reformed European economic governance framework. With its goal of ensuring that macroeconomic imbalances do not emerge as they did in the 2000s, the MIP is part of a strengthened EU economic...

The threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism has not disappeared, though the world has made important progress in reducing these risks. Urgent new steps are needed to build effective and lasting nuclear security worldwide. The nuclear security effort must now shift from short-term...

Leaders at the 2010 nuclear security summit agreed on the goal of securing all vulnerable nuclear material in four years. This goal implied that many countries would change their nuclear security policies. But the factors that drive changes in nuclear security policies, and that constrain those...

The rise of digital networks is diffusing power to new players. Fourth in a series on soft power.

The human mind tends to excessively discount the value of delayed rewards relative to immediate ones, with “hot†affective processes believed to drive desires for short-term gratification. Supporting this view, recent findings demonstrate that sadness exacerbates financial impatience...

In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are accurate? And which are false complaints from sore losers? New evidence gathered by the Electoral Integrity Project has just been released in an annual report which...