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Article Dans Une Revue European Journal of Political Economy Année : 2021

Do the ECB's Introductory Statements Help Predict Monetary Policy? Evidence from a Tone Analysis

Hamza Bennani
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Pawel Baranowski
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Wirginia Doryn
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In this paper, we examine whether a tone shock derived from European Central Bank communication helps predict ECB monetary policy decisions. To this purpose, we first use a bag-of-words approach and several dictionaries on the ECB's Introductory Statements to derive a measure of tone. Next, we orthogonalise the tone measure on the latest data available to market participants to compute the tone shock. Finally, we relate the tone shock to future ECB monetary policy decisions. We find that the tone shock is significantly and positively related to future ECB monetary policy decisions, even when controlling for market expectations of monetary policy and the Governing Council's inter-meeting communication. Further extensions show that the predictive ability of the tone shock is robust to (i) the normalization of the tone measure, (ii) alternative market expectations of monetary policy, and (iii) the horizon of macroeconomic variables used in the Taylor-type monetary policy rule. These findings highlight an additional channel through which ECB communication improves monetary policy predictability, suggesting that the ECB may have private information that it communicates through its Introductory Statements.

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hal-02957422 , version 1 (22-03-2023)

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Hamza Bennani, Pawel Baranowski, Wirginia Doryn. Do the ECB's Introductory Statements Help Predict Monetary Policy? Evidence from a Tone Analysis. European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 66. ⟨hal-02957422⟩
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