scholarly journals Mexico's Monetary Policy Communication and Money Markets

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Garcia-Herrero ◽  
Eric Girardin ◽  
Arnoldo Lopez Marmolejo
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Money Markets ◽  
Policy Communication

scholarly journals Mexico’s Monetary Policy Communication and Money Markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Alicia Garcia-Herrero ◽  
Eric Girardin ◽  
Arnoldo Lopez-Marmolejo
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Money Market ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Money Markets ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Central Bank Communication ◽  
Policy Communication

Central bank communication is becoming a key aspect of monetary policy. How much financial markets listen and, possibly, understand Banco de Mexico’s communication on its monetary policy stance should be a key consideration for the central bank to further modernize its monetary policy toolkit. In this paper, we tackle this issue empirically by using our own index of the tone of communication based on Banco de Mexico’s speeches and statements and find that Mexican money markets do not only listen but they also understand the stance of monetary policy conveyed in the central bank’s words. Regarding the ability to listen we find that both the volatility and volume in the money market rates change right after communication from Banco de Mexico’s governing body. As for the markets’ understanding, we document a statistically significant rise in money market rates the more hawkish communication is. All in all, our results show strong evidence of effective oral and written communication from the Central Bank towards Mexico’s money markets.

scholarly journals A Text Mining Analysis of Central Bank Monetary Policy Communication in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-107
Author(s):  
Mohammed M. Tumala ◽  
Babatunde S. Omotosho
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Central Bank Communication ◽  
Monetary Policy Committee ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Policy Communication ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Monetary Policy Transparency

This paper employs text-mining techniques to analyse the communication strategy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) during the period 2004-2019. Since the policy communique released after each meeting of the CBN’s monetary policy committee (MPC) represents an important tool of central bank communication, we construct a corpus based on 87 policy communiques with a total of 123, 353 words. Having processed the textual data into a form suitable for analysis, we examined the readability, sentiments, and topics of the policy documents. While the CBN’s communication has increased substantially over the years, implying increased monetary policy transparency; the computed Coleman and Liau readability index shows that the word and sentence structures of the policy communiques have become more complex, thus reducing its readability. In terms of monetary policy sentiments, we find an average net score of -10.5 per cent, reflecting the level of policy uncertainties faced by the MPC over the sample period. In addition, our results indicate that the topics driving the linguistic contents of the communiques were influenced by the Bank’s policy objectives as well as the nature of shocks hitting the economy per period.

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