Complexicity of ECB Communication and Financial Market Trading

We empirically examine how complexity of ECB communications affects financial market trading based on high-frequency data from European stock index futures trading. Our sample covers ECB press conferences between January 2009 and December 2017, during which un-conventional monetary policy measures (...

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发表在:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 19-2019)
Autoren: Hayo, Bernd, Henseler, Kai, Rapp, Marc Steffen, Zahner, Johannes
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语言:英语
出版: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2019
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总结:We empirically examine how complexity of ECB communications affects financial market trading based on high-frequency data from European stock index futures trading. Our sample covers ECB press conferences between January 2009 and December 2017, during which un-conventional monetary policy measures (UMPM) substantially increased communication com-plexity. Analysing the linguistic complexity of the introductory statements and differentiating between press conferences with and without UMPM-announcements, we find more complex communication, i.e. high linguistic complexity and UMPM-announcement, is associated with a lower level of contemporaneous trading activity. Moreover, complex communication leads to a temporal shift in trading activity towards the subsequent Q&A session, which suggests that Q&A sessions facilitate market participants’ information processing. Finally, we document a relatively lower similarity of unconventional monetary policy statements and argue that this might explain our findings.
实物描述:47 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0614