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We implement a repeated version of the Barro-Gordon monetary policy game in the laboratory and ask whether reputation serves as a substitute for commitment, enabling the central bank to achieve the efficient Ramsey equilibrium and avoid the inefficient, time-inconsistent one-shot Nash...
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While it has become clear that communication is a monetary policy tool for central banks, and extensive research has … been conducted on central bank communication with financial markets, little is known so far on central bank communication … European Central Bank (ECB) and on understanding of its communication about the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme, which …
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bank should disclose or not its information, but how the central bank should disclose it. We consider a static coordination …
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In games with strategic complementarities, public information about the state of the world has a larger impact on equilibrium actions than private information of the same precision, because the former is more informative about the likely behavior of others. This may lead to welfare-reducing...
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We study flexible public information design in global games. In addition to receiving public information from the designer, agents are endowed with exogenous private information and must decide whether or not to “attack” a status-quo. The designer does not trust the agents to play favourably...
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finite number of ``clusters” and to communicate to the public to which cluster the state belongs. Optimal communication is …
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We develop a theory of conversations. Two agents with different interests take turns choosing the topic of the conversation. Talking about a single topic allows them to delve deeper, making the conversation more informative (or enjoyable). To capture this dynamic, we assume that the marginal...
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