Recent research on central bank governance has focused mainly on their monetary policy task. As the sub-prime loan … also in ensuring their soundness and stability. In this paper we study the specific corporate governance structures of a … public governance literatures, where present. Our analysis highlights a striking variety in central bank governance …

Lack of transparency in securitization transactions significantly contributed to the severe financial crisis of … 20072009. To increase transparency we propose a new mechanism: financial claims with fingerprints. They would allow market … considerably enhance transparency in securitization transactions at the expense of some transaction costs, while reducing the need …

Transparency has become one of the main features of monetary policymaking during the last decade. This paper … establishes some stylized facts. In addition, it provides a systematic overview of the practice of monetary policy transparency … framework, including inflation targeting. Nevertheless, the paper finds significant differences in transparency across monetary …

Transparency has become a prominent feature of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of central bank … communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …

pricing. Second, on a micro level, accountability of managers can be improved by compensation packages aiming at long term … transparency relating to effective risk transfer, risk-related management compensation, and credible measurement of rating …

This paper studies monetary policy committee transparency (MPCT) based on a new index that measures central bankers … variables and institutional transparency, as well as instrumenting MPCT in various ways. …