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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts
Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014
Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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Die Wirkung von Handlungen der Europäischen Zentralbank auf den Aktienmarkt im Euroraum und der Einfluss der Stimmung
Thunen, Philipp von - 2017
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Size Anomalies in U.S. Bank Stock Returns : A Fiscal Explanation
Gandhi, Priyank - 2010
The largest commercial bank stocks, ranked by total size of the balance sheet, have significantly lower risk …-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks, even though large banks are significantly more levered. We uncover a size … factor in the component of bank returns that is orthogonal to the standard risk factors, including small-minus-big, which has …
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Measuring the Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
Swanson, Eric T. - 2015
I adapt the methods of Gurkaynak, Sack, and Swanson (2005) to estimate two dimensions of monetary policy during the 2009-2015 zero lower bound period in the U.S. I show that, after a suitable rotation, these two dimensions can be interpreted as "forward guidance" and "large-scale asset...
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Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing
Chang, Yen-cheng - 2013
Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner...
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Monetary Policy without Moving Interest Rates : The Fed Non-Yield Shock
Boehm, Christoph E.; Kroner, T. Niklas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Existing high-frequency monetary policy shocks explain surprisingly little variation in stock prices and exchange rates around FOMC announcements. Further, both of these asset classes display heightened volatility relative to non-announcement times. We use a heteroskedasticity-based procedure to...
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Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication
Cieslak, Anna - 2018
We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central …
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COVID-Induced Economic Uncertainty
Baker, Scott R. - 2020
Assessing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is essential for policymakers, but challenging because the crisis has unfolded with extreme speed. We identify three indicators - stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic uncertainty, and subjective uncertainty in business...
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Price Discovery in the U.S. Treasury Market : The Impact of Orderflow and Liquidity on the Yield Curve
Brandt, Michael W. - 2003
We examine the role of price discovery in the U.S. Treasury market through the empirical relationship between orderflow, liquidity, and the yield curve. We find that orderflow imbalances (excess buying or selling pressure) can account for as much as 26 percent of the day-to-day variation in...
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