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How You Say It Matters: Text Analysis of FOMC Statements Using Natural Language Processing
The Federal Reserve has increasingly used public statements to shape expectations about future policy actions. After the Great Recession, when the nominal short-term interest rate reached its effective lower bound, the Federal Open Market Committee turned toward explicit forward guidance about the future path of the policy rate as well as the amount and composition of large-scale asset purchases in their post-meeting statements. Although these statements sometimes included quantitative information, they also included more nuanced, qualitative descriptions of economic conditions. However, ...