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examine whether this form of ECB communication adds information to a shadow interest rate that summarises the overall policy … stance as interpreted by financial markets. To measure communication, we use information based on ECB press releases … distinguishing between topics like inflation, the real economy and monetary developments. We also look at the effect of communication …
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of monetary policy communication on financial markets. Using natural language processing tools, we construct measures of … linguistic and structural complexity that capture governor-specific trends in communication. We find that while RBI's monetary … policy communication is linguistically complex on average, the length of monetary policy statements has gone down and …
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Monetary policy communication is particularly important during unconventional times, because high uncertainty about the … predictability of policy actions. We study how monetary policy communication should and has worked under such circumstances. Our main …
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This paper employs text-mining techniques to analyse the communication strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN … (MPC) represents an important tool of central bank communication, we construct a corpus based on 87 policy communiques with … readability, sentiments, and topics of the policy documents. While the CBN’s communication has increased substantially over the …
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We examine howthe verbal complexity of ECB communications affectsfi-nancial market trading based on high-frequency data fromEuropean stock index futures trading. Studying the 34 events between May 2009 and June 2017, during which the ECB Governing Council press conferences covered unconventional...
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In this paper, I examine whether communications by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) play a role in determining the types of macroeconomic news that financial markets pay attention to. To do so, I construct novel measures of the intensity with which FOMC statements and meeting minutes...
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Press releases announcing and explaining monetary policy decisions play a critical role in the communication strategy …
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Using novel data on speeches held by members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board, we investigate whether monetary policy transparency has increased over time. With respect to the general public as the target audience, our findings suggest that the European Central Bank successfully...
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Central bank communications are an important tool for guiding the economy and fulfilling monetary policy goals. Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms have been used to analyze central bank communications. These outdated bag-of-words methods often ignore context and cannot distinguish who...
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This paper surveys the literature on the role and effects of central bank communication with the general public … "communication revolution" in central bank communication. The challenges for central bank communication with the public are outlined … evaluate the effects of direct communication, distinguishing between challenges to getting the attention of the public and …
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