Central bank transparency has become one of the key features of monetary policy recently.
This survey article provides a structured review of the theoretical literature on the …

GDP, monetary variables, corruption, and uncertainty are crucial to energy policy decisions
in today's interrelated world. The global energy crisis, aggravated by rising energy prices …

Tom Christensen Professor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo tom.
christensen@ stv. uio. no tor? Eller er det som om at disse bølger lever i sameksistens …

Central bank transparency has become the topic of a lively public and academic debate on
monetary policy. However, this has been complicated by the fact that transparency is a …

To what extent and how do agencies manage their reputations through the strategic use of
communication? Under what conditions are regulators inclined to respond to external …

In most of the existing academic literature the notion of transparency in monetary policy is
defined in too simple terms to be of practical relevance. This paper suggests a conceptual …

Prior results from the labor relations literature suggest that revealing information weakens
management's position in collective bargaining. Thus, when facing organized labor …

This paper develops and estimates a game-theoretical model of inflation targeting where the
central banker's preferences are asymmetric around the targeted rate. Specifically, positive …

Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The
Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the …

This paper surveys and evaluates alternative views regarding the desirable combination of
accountability, credibility and transparency in the newly created ECB, including recent …