Deciphering Monetary Policy Board Minutes through Text Mining Approach: The Case of Korea

Ki Young Park (), Youngjoon Lee () and Soohyon Kim
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Ki Young Park: School of Economics, Yonsei University
Youngjoon Lee: School of Business, Yonsei University
Soohyon Kim: Economic Research Institute, The Bank of Korea

No 2019-1, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute, Bank of Korea

Abstract: We quantify the Monetary Policy Board (MPB) minutes of the Bank of Korea (BOK) using text mining. We propose a novel approach using a field-specific Korean dictionary and contiguous sequences of words (n-grams) to better capture the subtlety of central bank communications. We find that our lexicon-based indicators help explain the current and future BOK monetary policy decisions when considering an augmented Taylor rule, suggesting that they contain additional information beyond the currently available macroeconomic variables. Our indicators remarkably outperform English-based textual classifications, a media-based measure of economic policy uncertainty, and a data-based measure of macroeconomic uncertainty. Our empirical results also emphasize the importance of using a field-specific dictionary and the original Korean text.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Text mining; Central banking; Bank of Korea, Taylor rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2019-01-07
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