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Economists often say that certain types of assets, e.g., Treasury bonds, are very "liquid". Do they mean that these assets are likely to serve as media of exchange or collateral (a definition of liquidity often employed in monetary theory), or that they can be easily sold in a secondary market,...
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This study examines volatility spillover dynamics among the S&P 500 index, the US 10-year Treasury yield, the US dollar … 29, 1996 to November 12, 2018. To address nonlinear and asymmetric spillover dynamics in low and high volatility states …
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I show that a congruent, parsimonious, encompassing model discovered using David Hendry's econometric modelling approach and Autometrics can overcome the many inadequacies of the typical static models of US Treasury returns regressed on macroeconomic announcements. The typical specification...
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information and news channel. A novelty of the study is its use of data from Google Analytics on ECB website traffic as proxy for … communication on the information demand of the public and ultimately on inflation expectations. Overall, this study shows that …-term professional inflation expectations. Our findings add to the theoretical evidence on the existence of an information and news …
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attempt to assess the potential impact of a selective sovereign default if worse came to worst. Yet finding that information …
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Today we live in a post-truth and highly digitalized era characterized by a flow of (mis-) information around the world …. Identifying the impact of this information on stock markets and forecasting stock returns and volatilities has become a much more …
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contribute to a short-term increase in volatility, the longer-term dynamics of volatility are dominated by monetary policy …
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We propose a smooth shadow-rate version of the dynamic Nelson-Siegel (DNS) model to analyze the term structure of interest rates during the recent zero lower bound (ZLB) period. By relaxing the no-arbitrage restriction, our shadow-rate model becomes highly tractable with a closed-form yield...
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This paper exploits the term structures of treasury yields to extract information about macroeconomic dynamics during …
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contribute to a short-term increase in volatility, the longer-term dynamics of volatility are dominated by monetary policy …
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