This article examines the influence of IMF announcements as a source of news on currency and stock markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We use a set of IMF-related news for a sample of 14 emerging countries from December, 2019 to December, 2020. Our central finding is that IMF news...

We use a sample of 27 countries and 63 currency news announcements in an event study framework to examine the impact of currency news on international government bond markets. Our findings reveal a significant spillover of currency news into bond markets. Specifically, the evidence shows...

This paper examines the impact of reclassifying equity Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) in the S&P 500 by transferring them from the Financials sector to a new Global Industry Classification Standard sector named Real Estate in an event-study context. The creation of the new sector had a...

This article examines the influence of IMF announcements as a source of news on currency and stock markets in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. We use a set of IMF-related news for a sample of countries during the pandemic. Our central finding is that IMF news exerts a significant impact...