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In this paper, we study the effects of US target rate changes and related communications by members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on spreads for emerging market sovereign credit default swaps (CDS). Using GARCH models, we find that during the pre-financial crisis sub-sample (April...
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In this paper, we study the effects of US target rate changes and related communications by members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors on spreads for emerging market sovereign credit default swaps (CDS). Using GARCH models, we find that during the pre-financial crisis sub-sample (April...
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Using a GARCH model, we study the effects of Federal Funds target rate changes and FOMC communication on emerging equity market returns and volatility over the period 1998–2006. First, both types of news have a significant impact on market returns. Second, target rate changes are more...
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This paper studies the effects of FOMC communication on U.S. financial markets’ returns and volatility using a GARCH model over the period from 1998 to 2006. We build a new data set that includes information on all FOMC speeches, post-meeting statements, monetary policy reports and...
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We analyse the impact of news on five financial markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland using a newly constructed data set in a GARCH framework. Macroeconomic shocks (on GDP, inflation rate, current account and trade balance) are constructed as deviations from expected values....
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In this paper, we study the effects of euro area and US macroeconomic news on financial markets in the Czech Republic …-month interest rates, stock market indices, exchange rates versus the euro, and the US dollar. First, foreign macroeconomic news has … whole observation period. Third, the process of European integration is accompanied by an increasing importance of euro area …
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model. By grouping the countries into euro area countries, "old" EU member states outside the euro area, and new EU member … states, we also evaluate the impact of euro introduction and the European unification process on stock market integration. We … market capitalisation and hindered by foreign exchange risk between old member states and the euro area. Interest rate …
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