Monetary Policy in the Media Spotlight: Sentiments, Signals, and Economic Impact
媒体聚光灯下的货币政策:情绪、信号与经济影响
News media coverage of monetary policy is not a passive transcript of central-bank communication: it filters announcements, macroeconomic news, and editorial choices into narratives that move expectations and policy decisions. We embed media sentiment into a behavioral New-Keynesian model in which the central bank reacts to sentiment and sentiment follows an explicit law of motion. We construct monetary-policy sentiment indicators from more than 50,000 Canadian newspaper…