Faculty News
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Professor Kim Schoenholtz's joint research on improving US monetary policy communications is spotlighted
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Excerpt from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -- (translated from German using Google Translate) "Cecchetti and Schoenholtz make three suggestions in their conference paper. [Their] first suggestion should be self-evident, but it is not yet: Central bank statements should be written in understandable language. This includes making a dissent among the decision-makers clear without getting lost in endless statements. Although it may be difficult to surpass the volubility of the members of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank in the 1980s and early 1990s, there is now an increase in public statements by monetary policymakers to an extent that does not promote the dissemination of a clear message. The independence of from central banks is an important achievement, but in troubled times it is not sacrosanct. It is therefore not bad for the leadership of a central bank to be perceived as a capable team, rather than and not as a chronically quarreling bunch.
Faculty News
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Excerpt from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -- (translated from German using Google Translate) "Cecchetti and Schoenholtz make three suggestions in their conference paper. [Their] first suggestion should be self-evident, but it is not yet: Central bank statements should be written in understandable language. This includes making a dissent among the decision-makers clear without getting lost in endless statements. Although it may be difficult to surpass the volubility of the members of the Central Bank Council of the Deutsche Bundesbank in the 1980s and early 1990s, there is now an increase in public statements by monetary policymakers to an extent that does not promote the dissemination of a clear message. The independence of from central banks is an important achievement, but in troubled times it is not sacrosanct. It is therefore not bad for the leadership of a central bank to be perceived as a capable team, rather than and not as a chronically quarreling bunch.