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A mean variance king? Creation and resolution of uncertainty under the employment report's reign
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E. - 2001
This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the intraday price process by including appropriate variables accounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function. This allows us to differentiate between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297797
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The impact of macroeconomic news on quote adjustments, noise, and informational volatility
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E.; Veredas, David - 2010
We study the impact of the arrival of macroeconomic news on the informational and noise-driven components in high-frequency quote processes and their conditional variances. Bid and ask returns are decomposed into a common ('efficient return') factor and two market-side-specific components...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303698
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Customer flow, intermediaries, and the discovery of the equilibrium riskfree rate
Menkveld, Albert J.; Sarkar, Asani; van der Wel, Michel - 2008
Macro announcements change the equilibrium riskfree rate. We find that treasury prices reflect part of the impact instantaneously, but intermediaries rely on their customer order flow in the 15 minutes after the announcement to discover the full impact. We show that this customer flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303702
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Price adjustment to news with uncertain precision
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E.; Müller, Christoph - 2008
Bayesian learning provides the core concept of processing noisy information. In standard Bayesian frameworks, assessing the price impact of information requires perfect knowledge of news' precision. In practice, however, precision is rarely dis- closed. Therefore, we extend standard Bayesian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303759
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The processing of non-anticipated information in financial markets: Analyzing the impact of surprises in the employment report
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter - 2002
This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on mean and variance of the intraday return process by including appropriate variables accounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function. This allows us to differentiate between the consistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324062
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The impact of macroeconomic news on quote adjustments, noise, and informational volatility
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E.; Veredas, David - 2010
We study the impact of the arrival of macroeconomic news on the informational and noise-driven components in high-frequency quote processes and their conditional variances. Bid and ask returns are decomposed into a common ('efficient return') factor and two market-side-specific components...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274304
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Risk patterns and correlated brain activities: Multidimensional statistical analysis of fMRI data with application to risk patterns
Myšičková, Alena; Song, Song; Majer, Piotr; Mohr, … - 2011
Decision making usually involves uncertainty and risk. Understanding which parts of the human brain are activated … during decisions under risk and which neural processes underly (risky) investment decisions are important goals in …-related activations in space and dynamics in time. Further, we classify the risk attitudes of all subjects based on the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319198
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Return and Volatility Reactions to Monthly Announcements of Business Cycle Forecasts: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Data
Steiner, Christian; Groß, Anne; Entorf, Horst - 2009
This article contributes to the literature on macroeconomic announcements and their impact on asset prices by investigating how the 15-second Xetra DAX returns reflect the monthly announcements of the two best known business cycle forecasts for Germany, i.e. the ifo Business Climate Index and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298727
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IMF surveillance and financial markets: A political economy analysis
Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270537
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Shall We Tax the Risk Premium?
Schindler, Dirk; Hilgers, Bodo - 2002
Should the realized risk premium be taxed – or not? In a simple two asset portfolio model we analyze the optimal … taxation rule when the economy faces aggregate risk. We show in an appropriate designed tax system, that the risk premium of … the risky asset should be fully taxed if the households are risk neutral in public consumption. If they are risk averse in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323931