News Management in Monetary Policy: When Central Banks Should Talk to the Government

Berger Helge and Marcel Thum
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Berger Helge: University of Munich,Munich, Germany

German Economic Review, 2000, vol. 1, issue 4, 465-493

Abstract: Central banks are often considered to be better informed about the present or future state of the economy than the government. A conservative central bank has an incentive to exploit this asymmetry by strategically managing its information policy. Strategic news management will keep the government uncertain about the state of the economy and increase the central bank's leeway for conducting a conservative monetary policy. We show that withholding information from the government is an equilibrium. However, there are also well-defined limits to strategic information policy as the central bank has to distort monetary policy to be in line with its news management. A simple extension of our findings is that, if the government on occasion learns about the bank's true information, it will then overrule the central bank's decision on monetary policy.

Date: 2000
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