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In recent years, central banks have increasingly turned to “forward guidance” as a central tool of monetary policy, especially as interest rates around the world have hit the zero lower bound. Standard monetary models imply that far future forward guidance is extremely powerful: promises...
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interest rates on the day the employment data are released finds no evidence that the bond market's reaction to employment news …
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with the rapid price adjustment implied by market efficiency …
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trader can walk away from a proposed trade when he learns the trading price. We show that when one trader's information is …
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informational efficiency of the price system. We show that, when agents have private information about monetary shocks, the cost can …
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We document a large decrease in autocorrelation and increase in variance of recent short-run returns on several broad stock market indexes, over the 1983-89 period, 15-minute returns went from being highly positively serially correlated to practically uncorrelated. Over the past twenty years,...
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predictable variation: (1)market inefficiency, and stock price 'overreaction' due to speculative 'fads' and (2) predictable …
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Many seemingly discordant results are reconciled if firm-specific return volatility is characterized as the intensity with which firm-specific events occur. A functionally efficient stock market allocates capital to its highest value uses, which often amounts to financing Schumpeterian creative...
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exchange and news came in on sailboats that were often delayed because of adverse weather conditions. The paper documents that … prices responded strongly to boat arrivals, but there was considerable volatility in the absence of news. The evidence …
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revolution. But have market prices become more informative? We derive a welfare-based measure of price informativeness: the … predicted variation of future cash flows from current market prices. Since 1960, price informativeness has increased at longer … investment a stronger predictor of cash flows. These results suggest increased revelatory price efficiency …
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