Most studies for the monetary policy effect on stock markets have concentrated on using the primary index to proxy the stock market. The present paper, avoiding “aggregation bias”, seeks to unbundle the effect of monetary policy on the stock market in two ways. First, the non-linear model is...

We study how the risks to future liquidity flow across corporate bond, Treasury, and stock markets. We document distribution “flight-to-safety” effects: a deterioration in the liquidity of high-yield corporate bonds forecasts an increase in the average liquidity of Treasury securities and a...

We investigate the informational role of trading volume and quote changes in VIX options with regard to future movements in the index, based upon a high-frequency framework. Our results reveal that whilst volume imbalances convey no significant predictive information, quote changes in VIX...