Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185427 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7229
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other details of the release. The details of the non-headline news, for which there are no expectations surveys, are unobservable to the econometrician, but nonetheless elicit a market response. We estimate the model by the Kalman filter, which essentially combines OLS- and heteroscedasticity-based event study estimators in one step, showing that those methods are better thought of as complements rather than substitutes. The inclusion of a single latent factor greatly improves our ability to explain asset price movements around announcements.
Subjects: 
event study
bondmarkets
high-frequency data
identification
JEL: 
E43
E52
E58
G12
G14
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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