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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether there is evidence of spin in Dutch newspaper reporting on the state of the economy and found that if newspapers are indeed able to create memorable stories, this should, according to their hypothesis, affect the opinion of readers with respect to the state in the economy.

TL;DR: This paper showed that there is an optimal intermediate degree of central bank transparency at which inflation persistence is minimized, and that while there are central banks that would benefit from further transparency increases, some might already have reached the limit.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there is likely an optimal intermediate degree of central bank transparency that improves the quality of private sector inflation forecasts, but beyond the optimum people might start to attach too much weight to the conditionality of their forecasts, and/or get confused by the large and increasing amount of information they receive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the essential features of macro and micro-prudential policies and their interactions, and delineates their borderline, and proposes mechanisms for aligning both policies in the pursuit of financial stability by identifying those elements that are desirable for effective cooperation between them.

TL;DR: Empirical estimations of a debt management reaction function indicate that the share of short term debt has been increasing especially since the onset of the economic crisis and the interaction of public debt management with financial stability and monetary policy strengthens.