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The Impact of Negative News on Public Perception of Inflation

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  • Alina Evstigneeva

    (Bank of Russia, Russian Federation)

  • Daniel Karpov

    (Bank of Russia, Russian Federation)

Abstract

This study presents a novel approach to distinguishing the news that has the greatest impact on households’ perception of inflation in Russia. Narrowing down the long list of all news items to only the strongly negative requires taking into account the concept of rational inattentiveness by the implementation of a 'too costly to ignore' principle. The feature importance models return very close results about the high importance of three main factors: news about the acceleration of inflation and single prices, about economic crisis and recession, and about the devaluation of the ruble, which is closely related to geopolitics. We also report differences in 1) higher and lower income households' perception of inflation and 2) in the formation of expected and perceived inflation. With these findings, we shed more light on the nature of households’ perception of inflation, which might be useful for central bank communications, especially during crises.

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  • Alina Evstigneeva & Daniel Karpov, 2023. "The Impact of Negative News on Public Perception of Inflation," Bank of Russia Working Paper Series wps111, Bank of Russia.
    • Handle: RePEc:bkr:wpaper:wps111
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    Keywords

    : monetary policy; text analysis; inflation expectations;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

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