Instrumenting US monetary shocks with fed funds future contracts and extracting global risk sentiment from VIX, this …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …. The effect of monetary policy on risk aversion is also apparent in regressions using high frequency data …

Using traditional monetary policy measures, Bekaert et al. (2013) show that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk … aversion and uncertainty and that positive shocks to risk aversion and uncertainty induce monetary policy changes. We extend …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …

stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … (“uncertainty”), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …

. We decompose the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility (“uncertainty … monetary policy decreases risk aversion after about five months. Monetary authorities react to periods of high uncertainty by … through which monetary policy may affect risk aversion, e.g., through its effects on broad liquidity measures and credit …