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Cryptocurrency Market Reactions to Regulatory News

Auer, Raphael A. - 2020

Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. The impact depends on the specific regulatory category to which the news relates: events...

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Expectation Dispersion, Uncertainty, and the Reaction to News

Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2021

Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...

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Missing Events in Event Studies : Identifying the Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises

Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2018

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...

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Stock Market's Assessment of Monetary Policy Transmission : The Cash Flow Effect

Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2019

We show that firm liability structure and associated cash flow matter for firm behavior, and that financial market participants price stocks accordingly. Looking at firm level stock price changes around monetary policy announcements, we find that firms that have more cash flow exposure see their...

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The Impact of Business and Political News on the GCC Stock Markets

Al-Maadid, Alanoud - 2019

This paper investigates the impact of business and political news on stock market returns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. For this purpose, it employs a Markov switching model including a separate index for each of the two categories of news considered. The results indicate the...

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The Economic Effects of Brexit - Evidence from the Stock Market

Breinlich, Holger - 2018

We study stock market reactions to the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 in order to assess investors’ expectations about the effects of leaving the European Union on the UK economy. Our results suggest that initial stock price movements were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the...

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Aggregate Insider Trading and Stock Market Volatility in the UK

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kyriacou, Kyriacos; … - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate insider trading (AIT) and stock market volatility using monthly data on insider transactions by UK executives in public limited companies for the period January 2002 - December 2020. More specifically, a Vector Autoregression (VAR) model is...

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Cybersecurity Risk

Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2021

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays intuitive relations with quantitative measures of...

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Stock Market Linkages between the ASEAN Countries, China and the Us : A Fractional Cointegration Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper examines stock market integration between the ASEAN five and the US and China, respectively, over the period … analysis is carried out for the weekly series to study the impact of the 2007-8 global financial crisis and the 2015 China … exhibit long memory. There is cointegration between the ASEAN five and the US but almost none between the former and China …

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An empirical analysis of legal insider trading in the Netherlands

Degryse, Hans; de Jong, Frank; Lefebvre, Jérémie - 2009

In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...

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