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A mean variance king? Creation and resolution of uncertainty under the employment report's reign

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  • Hautsch, Nikolaus
  • Hess, Dieter E.

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This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the intraday price process by including appropriate variables accounting for the news flow into both the mean and the variance function. This allows us to differentiate between the consistent price reaction to surprising news and traders? uncertainty about the precise price impact of this information. Analyzing the US employment report, we find that headline information is almost instantaneously incorporated into T-bond futures prices. Nevertheless, large surprises create considerable uncertainty, in particular ?bad? news. In contrast, if surprises in related headlines cross-validate each other, less room for differences of opinion is left, and hence volatility is decreased.

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  • Hautsch, Nikolaus & Hess, Dieter E., 2001. "A mean variance king? Creation and resolution of uncertainty under the employment report's reign," ZEW Discussion Papers 01-60, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:zewdip:5416
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    1. Savaser, Tanseli, 2011. "Exchange rate response to macronews: Through the lens of microstructure," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 107-126, February.

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    Keywords

    Information processing; trading process; volatility; macroeconomic announcements; Treasury bond futures; high-frequency data;
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    JEL classification:

    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

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