Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank's communication with the wider public …

sentiment (considering both confidence and uncertainty) and economic activity. Second, we review existing empirical measures of … sentiment, in particular consumer confidence, stock market volatility (SMV) and Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU), on monthly … across countries, suggesting the existence of a global factor. Consumer confidence has the closest co-movement with economic …

services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure …. At the household level we find that the holding of a bank account or bank card increases with income, wealth and … integration. Our results show that foreign bank ownership is associated with more bank accounts among high-wealth, high …

investment in a model in which firms borrow from both bank and non-bank lenders. The bank funds loans with insured deposits and … competitively price loans. A tight capital requirement on the bank reduces risk-shifting and decreases bank leverage, reducing the … risk of costly bank failure. In response, though, the bank can change both price and non-price contract terms. This may …

in line with the economic conditions they face. Bank responses feed back to the macroeconomic environment affecting …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …