Central Bank Communication with the General Public: Promise or False Hope?

High-dose vitamin C therapy: renewed hope or false promise?

International Practitioner Data Bank: false premise, false promise.

In 1984, the US General Accounting Office issued a report pointing out that physicians who lost their licence to practice in one state were continuing to practice in another [1]. In 1986, a federal court issued a ruling that physicians carrying out peer review activities in an Oregon medical clinic violated antitrust laws [2]. Both actions triggered calls for congressional action. Consumer advo...

the place of iranian public diplomacy in central asia

چکیده: نسبت به کارکرد و ماهیت دیپلماسی عمومی در جهان امروز نظریه های متعددی بیان گردیده و جایگاه آن در کنار نظریه های دیگر در محافل آکادمیک و دانشگاهی بررسی و تحلیل گردیده است. نظر به اهمیت دیپلماسی عمومی و جایگاه آن در سیاست خارجی ایران این نوشتار با تمرکز بر دیپلماسی عمومی در منطقه آسیای مرکزی تهیه و تنظیم شده است. این ضرورت از آنجا ناشی می شود که اولاً مفهوم دیپلماسی عمومی در سیاست خارجی ای...

Behavioral Perspectives on Central Bank Communication for Financial Stability

Analyzing central bank communication during financial crises, we draw on a surprisingly informative parallel between management of natural disasters such as earthquakes on one hand, and the corresponding communication infrastructure and social interaction during financial turmoil, on the other. The role of social and emotional behavior thereof points to the importance of interpersonal comm...

Central-Bank Communication and Policy Effectiveness∗

for helpful comments on an earlier draft, without implicating any of them in the views expressed here. I would also like to thank Mauro Roca for research assistance and the National Science Foundation for research support through a grant to the NBER.