Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43221 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CFS Working Paper No. 2008/47
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Macro announcements change the equilibrium riskfree rate. We find that treasury prices reflect part of the impact instantaneously, but intermediaries rely on their customer order flow in the 15 minutes after the announcement to discover the full impact. We show that this customer flow informativeness is strongest at times when analyst forecasts of macro variables are highly dispersed. We study 30 year treasury futures to identify the customer flow. We further show that intermediaries appear to benefit from privately recognizing informed customer flow, as, in the cross-section, their own-account trade profitability correlates with access to customer orders, controlling for volatility, competition, and the announcement surprise. These results suggest that intermediaries learn about equilibrium riskfree rates through customer orders.
Subjects: 
Riskfree Rate
Macroeconomic Announcements
Customer Flow
Intermediary
Treasury Futures
JEL: 
G14
E44
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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