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The dilemma of central bank transparency

Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Andrea Prat


If central banks publish the transcripts of their internal policy debates, will discussions be enhanced or inhibited? Michael McMahon and colleagues use tools from computational linguistics to analyse the positive and negative effects of transparency on deliberations of the monetary policymakers at the US Federal Reserve.


19 January 2015     Paper Number CEPCP439

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