Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179348 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2133
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Central bank announcements simultaneously convey information about monetary policy and the central bank's assessment of the economic outlook. This paper disentangles these two components and studies their effect on the economy using a structural vector autoregression. It relies on the information inherent in high-frequency comovement of interest rates and stock prices around policy announcements: a surprise policy tightening raises interest rates and reduces stock prices, while the complementary positive central bank information shock raises both. These two shocks have intuitive and very different effects on the economy. Ignoring the central bank information shocks biases the inference on monetary policy non-neutrality. We make this point formally and offer an interpretation of the central bank information shock using a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with financial frictions.
Subjects: 
Central Bank Private Information
Monetary Policy Shock
High-Frequency Identification
Structural VAR
Event Study
JEL: 
E32
E52
E58
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3238-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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