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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 10285

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Expectations; Speculations
Thema
inflation expectations
media coverage
transmission of monetary policy
quasi-experimental evidence

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hirsch, Patrick
Feld, Lars P.
Köhler, Ekkehard A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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