Establishing credibility
Subtitle: evolving perceptions of the European Central Bank
By: Linda S. Goldberg, Michael W. Klein.
Contributors: Klein, Michael W., 1958-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11792; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11792.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: European Central Bank.; Monetary policy -- Europe.; Anti-inflationary policies -- Europe.
Description: "The perceptions of a central bank's inflation aversion may reflect institutional structure or, more dynamically, the history of its policy decisions.  In this paper, we present a novel empirical framework that uses high frequency data to test for persistent variation in market perceptions of central bank inflation aversion.  The first years of the European Central Bank (ECB) provide a natural experiment for this model.  Tests of the effect of news announcements on the slope of yield curves in the euro-area, and on the euro/dollar exchange rate, suggest that the market's perception of the policy stance of the ECB during its first six years of operation significantly evolved, with a belief in its inflation aversion increasing in the wake of its monetary tightening.  In contrast, tests based on the response of the slope of the United States yield curve to news offer no comparable evidence of any change in market perceptions of the inflation aversion of the Federal Reserve"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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