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Quantitative easing in the euro area : an event study approach

Urbschat, Florian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2017

We examine the effects of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) gradually introduced by the European Central Bank from September 2014 onwards. Studying the short-term reaction of financial markets after APP press releases, we analyse the development of bond yields and spreads around these releases....

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Look who's talking : ECB communication during the first years of EMU

Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper studies ECB and Bundesbank communication on monetary policy during the first years of the European Economic and Monetary Union. We study whether statements by different (groups of) central bankers have been contradictory and whether differences have diminished over time. We find that...

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Measuring euro area monetary policy

Altavilla, Carlo; Brugnolini, Luca; Gürkaynak, Refet S.; … - 2019

We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...

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Monetary policy and the stock market : time-series evidence

Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2016

We construct a slope factor from changes in federal funds futures of different horizons. Slope predicts stock returns at the weekly frequency: faster monetary policy easing positively predicts excess returns. Investors can achieve increases in weekly Sharpe ratios of 20% conditioning on the...

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Monetary policy surprises and exchange rate behavior

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kara, Ali Hakan; Kısacıkoğlu, … - 2020

Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...

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Stock market's assessment of monetary policy transmission : the cash flow effect

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Karasoy-Can, Hatice Gökçe; Lee, … - 2019

We show that firm liability structure and associated cash flow matter for firm behavior, and that financial market participants price stocks accordingly. Looking at firm level stock price changes around monetary policy announcements, we find that firms that have more cash flow exposure see their...

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Preaching to the agnostic : inflation reporting can increase trust in the Central Bank but only among people with weak priors

Hayo, Bernd; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2023

Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether showing German respondents a graph plotting the European Central Bank's inflation target alongside inflation in the euro area from 1999 to 2017 affects respondents' trust in the ECB. The treatment has, on average, no significant effect on the...

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Monetary policy through production networks : evidence from the stock market

Ozdagli, Ali; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: May 2017

Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...

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57 channels (and nothin on) : does TV-news on the Eurozone affect government bond yield spreads?

Wolfinger, Julia; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; … - 2018

news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which include 37,859 news on the EU, on the Eurozone and on country …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …

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Central bank policies and financial markets : lessons from the Euro crisis

Mody, Ashoka; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2018 - This version: November 20, 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …

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