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Market Underreaction to Open Market Share Repurchases
Ikenberry, David - 1994
We examine long-run firm performance following open market share repurchase announcements which occurred during the period 1980 to 1990. We find that the average abnormal four-year buy-and-hold return measured after the initial announcement is 12.1 percent. For `value' stocks, companies more...
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Post-FOMC Announcement Drift in U.S. Bond Markets
Brooks, Jordan - 2018
The sensitivity of long-term rates to short-term rates represents a puzzle for standard macro-finance models. Post-FOMC announcement drift in Treasury markets after Federal Funds target changes contributes to the excess sensitivity of long rates. Mutual fund investors respond to the salience of...
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Business News and Business Cycles
Bybee, Leland; Kelly, Bryan T.; Manela, Asaf; Xiu, Dacheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text of 800,000 Wall Street Journal articles for 1984-2017, we estimate a topic model that summarizes business news into interpretable topical themes and quantifies the proportion of...
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Central Bank Swap Arrangements in the COVID-19 Crisis
Aizenman, Joshua; Itō, Hiro; Pasricha, Gurnain Kaur - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Facing acute strains in the offshore dollar funding markets during the COVID-19 crisis, the Federal Reserve (Fed) implemented measures to provide US dollar liquidity by reinforcing swap arrangements with five major central banks, reactivating them with nine other central banks and establishing a...
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Inflation Hedging on Main Street? Evidence from Retail TIPS Fund Flows
Nagel, Stefan; Yan, Zhen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households participating in financial markets pay attention to inflation news when making their investment decisions, even in an environment of mostly low and stable inflation. ETFs and open-ended mutual funds holding Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) receive inflows from retail...
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Monetary-Based Asset Pricing : A Mixed-Frequency Structural Approach
Bianchi, Francesco; Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Ma, Sai - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We integrate a high-frequency monetary event study into a mixed-frequency macro-finance model and structural estimation. The model and estimation allow for jumps at Fed announcements in investor beliefs, providing granular detail on why markets react to central bank communications. We find that...
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A Reassessment of Monetary Policy Surprises and High-Frequency Identification
Bauer, Michael D.; Swanson, Eric T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are an important tool for identifying the effects of monetary policy on asset prices and the macroeconomy. However, some recent studies have questioned both the exogeneity and the relevance of these monetary policy surprises as...
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Fed Implied Market Prices and Risk Premia
Calomiris, Charles W.; Harris, Joanna; Mamaysky, Harry; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We introduce FDIF, a measure of Fed communication surprise based on the text of FOMC statements. FDIF measures the difference between text-implied and actual values of key market variables. Positive FDIF of countercyclical variables (e.g., credit spreads) is associated with negative...
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Understanding the Ownership Structure of Corporate Bonds
Koijen, Ralph S. J.; Yogo, Motohiro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Insurers are the largest institutional investors of corporate bonds. However, a standard theory of insurance markets …
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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
Kunreuther, Howard - 2004
This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001 …, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance … Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in November 2002, establishing a national terrorism insurance program …
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