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We examine the effects of federal funds target rate changes and all types of FOMC communication on European and Pacific equity market returns using a GARCH model. We show that both types of news have a significant statistical and economic impact, but that the effects are not symmetric: target...
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We examine the effects of U.S. federal funds target rate changes and all types of FOMC communication on European and Pacific equity market returns using a GARCH model. We show that both types of news have a significant impact, but that the effects are not symmetric: although several...
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This paper studies the effects of FOMC communication on U.S. financial markets’ returns and volatility using a GARCH … and volatility is larger if the communication channel is more formal. However, since speeches happen much more often than …
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equity market returns and volatility over the period 1998–2006. First, both types of news have a significant impact on market … reports lowers price volatility. Finally, American emerging markets react more to U.S. news than non-American markets …
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Using a GARCH model, we analyze the influence of U.S. monetary policy action and communication on the price volatility … significant impact on price volatility. Second, expected target rate changes and communications decrease volatility, whereas … ; Price Volatility …
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Using a GARCH model, we analyze the influence of U.S. monetary policy action and communication on the price volatility … significant impact on price volatility. Second, expected target rate changes and communications decrease volatility, whereas …
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This paper studies the short-run macroeconomic effects of legislated tax changes in Germany using a vector autoregression (VAR) approach. Identification of the tax shock follows the narrative approach recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010). Results indicate a moderate, but statistically...
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Using a GARCH model, we analyze the influence of U.S. monetary policy action and communication on the price volatility … significant impact on price volatility. Second, expected target rate changes and communications decrease volatility, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286427