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Loud and Clear: Can we hear when the SARB speaks?

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Communication has become critically important for modern monetary policymakers. The reasons are two-fold: to ensure appropriate accountability for increasingly independent central banks and to improve the management of expectations. However, research has tended to focus more on the effects of the actions of central banks, rather than their communication. In South Africa all previous studies […]

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  • Monique Reid & Stan Du Plessis, 2015. "Loud and Clear: Can we hear when the SARB speaks?," Working Papers 40, Economic Research Southern Africa.
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    bank regulation; central bank; Monetary Policy; South Africa;
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    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • O23 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development

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