Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting

We inspect how inflation target announcements are instrumental in building central bank credibility and shaping inflation expectations. Investigating the role of announcements by using a time varying credibility measure, we find that both the accuracy and the frequency of inflation announcements hav...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Demir, Banu, Yigit, Taner M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5631
id okr-10986-5631
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-56312021-04-23T14:02:23Z Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting Demir, Banu Yigit, Taner M. Price Level Inflation Deflation E310 Central Banks and Their Policies E580 We inspect how inflation target announcements are instrumental in building central bank credibility and shaping inflation expectations. Investigating the role of announcements by using a time varying credibility measure, we find that both the accuracy and the frequency of inflation announcements have a positive impact on how much attention the public pays to target announcements. 2012-03-30T07:33:46Z 2012-03-30T07:33:46Z 2008 Journal Article Economics Letters 01651765 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5631 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language EN
topic Price Level
Inflation
Deflation E310
Central Banks and Their Policies E580
spellingShingle Price Level
Inflation
Deflation E310
Central Banks and Their Policies E580
Demir, Banu
Yigit, Taner M.
Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
description We inspect how inflation target announcements are instrumental in building central bank credibility and shaping inflation expectations. Investigating the role of announcements by using a time varying credibility measure, we find that both the accuracy and the frequency of inflation announcements have a positive impact on how much attention the public pays to target announcements.
format Journal Article
author Demir, Banu
Yigit, Taner M.
author_facet Demir, Banu
Yigit, Taner M.
author_sort Demir, Banu
title Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
title_short Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
title_full Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
title_fullStr Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
title_full_unstemmed Announcements and Credibility under Inflation Targeting
title_sort announcements and credibility under inflation targeting
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5631
_version_ 1764395745631272960