Arbeitspapier
Breaking Monetary Policy News: The Role of Mass Media Coverage of ECB Announcements for Public Inflation Expectations
Using the variation in national television news of four major member states in the Eurozone, we find causal effects of coverage of high-frequency identified monetary policy announcements on households' inflation expectations in an event study and a generalized Difference-in-Differences approach with stacked data. If a monetary policy decision receives news coverage, the adaptation of inflation expectations is stronger than without coverage. Second, we find that coverage of 'delphic' monetary policy announcements, which are primarily informational in nature, leads to an inverse adjustment, i.e., expansionary shocks lead to households lowering their inflation expectations, as opposed to coverage of a textbook, 'odyssean', monetary policy shock.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10285
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Expectations; Speculations
- Thema
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inflation expectations
media coverage
transmission of monetary policy
quasi-experimental evidence
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hirsch, Patrick
Feld, Lars P.
Köhler, Ekkehard A.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hirsch, Patrick
- Feld, Lars P.
- Köhler, Ekkehard A.
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2023