Managers have incentives to voluntarily disclose good news early and delay bad news disclosure, and we propose that earnings announcements offset these asymmetric incentives by assuming a proportionately greater role in the disclosure of bad news relative to good news. We find that when news measured by quarterly market-adjusted returns is negative, the proportion of news variation concentrated...

Goldin and Katz’s The Race Between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of this work and documents the success of Goldin and Katz’s fr...

This paper compares two types of monetary policy: price-level targeting and inflation targeting. It reviews recent arguments that favour price-level targeting, and examines how certain factors, such as the nature of the shocks affecting the economy and the degree to which agents are forwardlooking, bear upon the arguments. The paper then extends the analysis to a small open economy such as Cana...

abstract this study uses annual data over the period 2005-2014 and the panel vecm approach to examine financial inclusion and monetary policy effectiveness in africa. the study shows that financial inclusion and monetary policy effectiveness are linked by a set of long-run relationships. policy reaction to the positive financial inclusion shock is not significant. policy reaction to the positiv...

We develop a deep learning model to detect emotions embedded in press conferences after the Federal Open Market Committee meetings and examine influence of detected on financial markets. find that, controlling for Reserve’s actions sentiment policy texts, positive tone voices Reserve chairs leads significant increases share prices. Other variables also respond vocal cues from chairs. Hence, how...

This paper studies how the impact of monetary policy depends on distribution savings from refinancing mortgages. We show that efficacy is state dependent, varying in a systematic way with pool potential refinancing. construct quantitative dynamic life-cycle model accounts for our findings and use it to study response consumption change mortgage rates These effects are strongly dependent. also l...

The centennial of the publication first German edition Ludwig von Mises’s Theory Money and Credit offers an excellent opportunity to reconsider a long-standing controversy within modern Austrian economics. This revolves around question whether Mises favored 100-percent gold reserve banking imposed by law or free based on as ideal monetary system. In this paper, I suggest that debate is fundamen...

In this paper the optimal choice of a monetary target is investigated for a small open economy that is subject to foreign monetary policy shocks. In contrast to large parts of the literature, pegging the exchange rate is never the best policy choice for the small open economy in our model. Instead, monetary targeting and, depending on the parameter combination, producer price index targeting co...

When impulse responses in dynamic multivariate models such as identified VARs are given economic interpretations, it is important that reliable statistical inferences be provided. Before probability assessments are provided, however, the model must be normalized. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this paper argues that normalization, a rule of reversing signs of coefficients in equations in ...

This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996–2011 using quarterly data, with a view to analytically informing the conduct of monetary policy. The results show that forward-looking formulations of both rules and their hybrid version setting a nominal output growth objective for monetary policy wi...