This website is a companion to the CBS dataset created and maintained by Emanuele Campiglio, Jérôme Deyris, Davide Romelli, and Ginevra Scalisi.
This app aims to facilitate the exploration of central bank speeches for academics, citizens, NGOs, and anyone interested in central banking.
The dataset comprises 35,487 speeches from 1986 to 2023. The collection builds upon the BIS database (18,045 speeches), expanded through web scraping of central bank websites (adding 15,435 speeches) and archival research (adding 2,007 speeches). In the 17,442 additional speeches, 5,347 were delivered in languages other than English, and have been translated using Microsoft Translation services.
This dataset was created for the paper 'Warning words in a warming world: Central bank communication and climate change'. For any use, please cite the paper (Campiglio, Deyris, Romelli and Scalisi, 2025). The dataset can be freely downloaded at cbspeeches.com
The app offers three tools to explore the speeches
1. Browse by speech: Search for keywords to find relevant speeches that meet your frequency threshold. Results are presented through interactive visualizations (dots are clickable!) and a detailed table with URL links to source documents.
2. Browse by year: Track the evolution of specific themes in central bank communication over time. View keyword frequencies across institutions as raw counts or percentages of total words to account for varying communication intensity.
3. Browse by category: Unpack the nuanced dynamics of central bank communication by exploring how different categorical variables - from regions and institutions to individual speakers - engage with your chosen themes.
4. Explore the dataset: Examine trends in central bank communication across multiple dimensions
The corpus has been pre-processed for optimal search functionality: all text has been converted to lower case and special characters have been removed. While non-English speeches have been translated to enable searching, you can access the original text through the provided links or by downloading the complete dataset.
Disclaimer: all speeches in this database remain the exclusive property of their respective central banks. Our platform's sole purpose is to facilitate the discovery and analysis of central bank communications by making them more accessible to researchers, practitioners, and the public.
Should you encounter any technical issues while using the app, please contact jerome.deyris@sciencespo.fr. For inquiries about the paper or dataset, contact romellid@tcd.ie.