New evidence from the monetary policy communication and inflation expectations nexus in Africa

Motivated by the dearth of evidence, we examine the impact of monetary policy communication on inflation expectations in Africa. Employing text-mining techniques to analyse the monetary policy statements of six African central banks, we compute a novel index of monetary policy communication (MPCI) u...

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Main Authors: Ada Tony Odu, Umaru Aminu, Nuhu Ado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Scientific African
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227623004477