The reaction of asset prices to monetary and macroeconomic news announcements represents a rich source of information which is important to better understand the financial market impact of economic fundamentals. Given the significant connection of energy to other sectors in the economy, this...

We quantify the tone from the speeches of the ECB as well as that from the national central banks of six leading European nations, and analyze its role in explaining the returns of their respective stock market indices. Using innovations in financial text analysis introduced in Anand et al....

We quantify the sentiment from central bank speeches of five leading developed nations (US, UK, Japan, France, and Germany) and analyze their role in explaining the return of stock market indices for the respective nations. In this study we improve upon existing sentiment quantification...

This paper examines how the Bank of England conducts monetary policy in practice and assesses its policy preferences. Our empirical results using monthly ex post inflation forecast suggest that pursued policy can be characterized by a nonlinear policy reaction function with a deflation bias. We...