Public Information and the Persistence of Bond Market Volatility /

We examine the reaction of daily bond prices to the release of government macroeconomic news. These news releases are of interest because they are released on periodic, preannounced dates and because they cause substantial bond market volatility. The news component of volatility is not positively...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Jones, Charles M.
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
Lamont, Owen, Lumsdaine, Robin
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1996.
Zusammenfassung:
We examine the reaction of daily bond prices to the release of government macroeconomic news. These news releases are of interest because they are released on periodic, preannounced dates and because they cause substantial bond market volatility. The news component of volatility is not positively autocorrelated on these dates, since the news is released at a specific moment in time. We find that (1) expected returns on the short end of the bond market are significantly higher on these announcement dates, and (2) the persistence pattern of daily volatility is quite different around these days.
Umfang:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Anmerkungen:
January 1996.
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