. 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 …

We ask whether communication can directly substitute for memory in dynastic repeated games in which short lived … by means of communication. When communication is costless and messages are sent simultaneously, communication mechanisms … or protocols exist that sustain the same set of equilibrium payoffs as in the standard repeated game. When communication …

This paper investigates optimal communication mechanisms with a two-dimensional policy space and no monetary transfers … design), the optimal communication mechanism never exhibits any pooling and the agent's ideal policies are never chosen …-cooperative design) and enters separately into the agent's utility function, optimal mechanisms under private communication take again …

, contributes to financial stability. Therefore, the communication policies of banking supervisors should aim to improve the public …

This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …

central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President's introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …

central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President’s introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …

We study the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge in an infinite-horizon model of communication. Each in a … equilibria do not exist. This is so both in the case of private communication in which each player only hears the message of his … immediate predecessor, and in the case of public communication, in which each player hears the message of all previous players …