Despite increasing communication efforts, it may be difficult for central banks to engage the
public, as their language is often too difficult to understand for most citizens. Focusing on the …

We construct a new indicator to capture media sentiment about the European Central Bank
monetary policy and its relevant environment by analyzing 25,000 articles from five major …

This paper examines whether media attention affects the macroeconomic effects of
monetary policy uncertainty. We combine survey data from Consensus Economics and data …

Central bank independence has raised questions of accountability ever since its global
diffusion in the 1990s, and especially since the financial crisis. Yet, whilst the literature on …

This paper investigates whether financial markets stability matters in setting monetary policy
in the case of the European Central Bank and Bank of England. We show that our Tri …

This study investigates the influence of central bank private-sector quantitative easing (QE)
policies on firms' voluntary disclosures. While the effects of QE on borrowing costs and asset …

This paper raises concerns about the methodological approaches commonly adopted in
typical Taylor rule studies. We find that many empirical studies on the Taylor rule do not …

The never ending debate on the optimal money elasticity and predictability, coupled with the
recent wishes of the major central banks to normalize monetary policy, as well as to revise …

In response to the large fluctuations of the Australian dollar in the beginning of the twenty-
first century, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) started to express a preference for a …

The never-ending debate on the optimal money elasticity and predictability, coupled with the
recent wishes of the major central banks to normalize monetary policy, motivate this …