. This article surveys a rapidly-growing literature on central bank communication with the public. We first discuss why and … how such communication is more challenging than communicating with expert audiences. Then we survey the empirical evidence …

The paper shows that central bank communication is a key determinant of the market’s ability to anticipate monetary … policy decisions and the future path of interest rates. Comparing communication policies by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of …, individualistic communication regarding the economic outlook is found to be beneficial for the Federal Reserve, enabling market …

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 literature on central bank communication —mostly empirical, and almost all of it … written in this decade. We survey this evergrowing literature. The evidence suggests that communication can be an important …

financial market volatility after FOMC meetings. Finally, Fed communication may exert an influence on forecast accuracy. JEL …

Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank’s communication with the wider public … inflation environment, and that the media’s coverage of decisions is generally highly responsive to ECB communication – in …

such communication has the ability to move financial markets. The findings suggest that communication is generally seen as … so prior to interest rate changes. At the same time, markets react more strongly to communication prior to policy changes …. Other instances where communication becomes more intense, or where financial markets become more responsive are also …

Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice … of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events … information precisely when it is sought after intensely. However, imposing such a limit to communication has often been justified …

to revert to other types of Fed communication in the inter-meeting periods, and come to their own assessment of the …

The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central … Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking … process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal Reserve has been pursuing a rather individualistic communication …