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Otmar Issing on the art of central bank communications

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Otmar Issing
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Communications has changed quite markedly in the last few decades, moving from what you described in your book The long journey of central bank communication as “amateurish ad hoc-ery” to “professionalism”, particularly among independent central banks. What are the most important positive changes you’ve seen?

You referred to my remark about going from ‘amateurish’ communication to ‘professional’. There was even a time before that when central banks didn’t communicate at all. In my little book

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