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Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other...
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Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. The impact depends on the specific regulatory category to which the news relates: events...
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analyze intra-day data from 2011–2015. Our comprehensive analysis of the wide variety of macroeconomic information during the …
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Although international sanctions are a widely used instrument of coercion, their economic effects are still not fully understood. This study uses a novel dataset and an event study approach to evaluate the economic consequences of international sanctions, thereby accounting for pre-treatment...
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. Uncertainty, in contrast, increases the response. We rationalize our findings in a model of imperfect information. In the model …
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This paper examines the advantages and drawbacks of alternative methods of estimating oil supply and oil demand … elasticities and of incorporating this information into structural VAR models. I not only summarize the state of the literature … conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
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crisis period. Individual economy estimation results, however, show that the Joneses effect varies across economies …
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We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences … response to an aggregate oil price shock. Time-varying estimates do not support the view that the gasoline demand elasticity … rose to about -0.2 in 2015-16, but has remained stable since 2016. Gasoline demand is more responsive in states with lower …
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information reduce their demand for news from this newspaper. Furthermore, treated respondents who think that a news outlet is …We examine whether the desire for more information is people's dominant motive for reading economic and political news … experimentally vary people's beliefs about the informativeness of news. Inconsistent with the desire for more information being the …
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-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in … successful entry, but that firms do not use dynamic manipulation of markups as an instrument to shift demand. We structurally … advertising to acquire new customers and thereby shift demand and increase sales. In the second, they use temporarily low markups …
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