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Sentiment Analysis of State Bank of Pakistan's Monetary Policy Documents and its Impact on Stock Market

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  • Aabid Karim
  • Heman Das Lohano

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This research examines whether sentiments conveyed in the State Bank of Pakistan's (SBP) communications impact financial market expectations and can act as a monetary policy tool. To achieve our goal, we first use sentiment analysis techniques to quantify the tone of SBP monetary policy documents and second, we use short time window, high frequency methodology to approximate the impact of tone on stock market returns. Our results show that positive (negative) change in the tone positively (negatively) impacts stock returns in Karachi Stock Exchange. Further extension shows that the communication of SBP still has a statistically significant impact on stock returns when controlling for different variables and monetary policy tool. Also, the communication of SBP does not have a long term constant effect on stock market.

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  • Aabid Karim & Heman Das Lohano, 2024. "Sentiment Analysis of State Bank of Pakistan's Monetary Policy Documents and its Impact on Stock Market," Papers 2408.03328, arXiv.org.
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