[eng] The Reaction of European Bond Yields to Economic News Activity on financial markets is driven by the release of new information. Basically, one can distinguish two kinds of information: those which appear at random dates and times, and those which, on the contrary, appear according to a...

Théoriquement, les actions de politique monétaire \textit{via} le maniement des taux courts nominaux se transmettent à l'économie le long de la structure par terme des taux d'intérêt. L'absence de vérification empirique de ces relations entre les taux à différentes maturités, et...

Risk-based portfolio strategies - such as Minimum Variance, Maximum Diversification, Equally-Weighted and Risk Parity, to name the most famous - have become increasingly popular in the investment industry due to their return-agnostic and risk management features. In this paper, we show that...

This study extends the traditional set of central bank's interventions to include official announcements in order to provide empirical evidence on two pivotal questions: i) are FX authorities able to influence market expectations with different instruments? ii) how should interventions be...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the Bank of Japan's official interventions on the JPY/USD parity during the period 1992-2003. The novelty of our approach is to combine two recent advances of the empirical literature on foreign exchange interventions: (i) drawing on...

We propose a specification of the euro/dollar real exchange rate based on the productivity differential, the governments spending differential and the real interest rate differential. This model suitably describes the euro/dollar path over the last two decades and presents satisfactory...