by Board members. Nevertheless, media coverage of Fed president speeches is more likely if central bank communication is …

Central banks have intensified their communication with non-experts - an endeavour which some have argued is bound to … fail. This paper studies English and German Twitter traffic about the ECB to understand whether its communication is … received by non-experts and how it affects their views. It shows that Twitter traffic is responsive to ECB communication, also …

We examine the European Central Bank's ad-hoc communication and explore how it informs future monetary policy decisions …. Using the rich dataset of the intermeeting verbal communication among the members of the European Central Bank's Governing … Council between 2008 and 2014, we construct a measure of communication assessing its inclination towards easing, tightening or …

Why do long-run interest rates respond to central bank communication? Whereas existing explanations imply a common set …-run rates and operate primarily through the term premium. This suggests communication plays an important role in shaping …