The vast of literature concerning the reaction to macroeconomic announcements focus on American releases and their impact on returns and volatility. We are interested if the news from the German and the Polish economy are significant for the stock exchanges in these two countries. Using...

This study examines the response of intraday options-implied volatilities to scheduled announcements of major macroeconomic indicators. By analyzing the KOSPI 200 options intraday data, we find that the abnormal implied volatility significantly increases around announcements of macroeconomic...

This paper explores the effects of domestic and US macroeconomic announcement on the Romanian stock market. We found that some domestic macroeconomic announcement linked by the monetary policy had a consistent influence on the stock prices evolution. We also identify that some US macroeconomic...

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the impact of domestic and foreign macroeconomic news announcements on the Istanbul Stock Exchange for the period between 2002 and 2010. The market reaction to the news announcements is tested within a research window through which the reaction can...

Using the WHO announcement on March 11, 2020 and the Federal Reserve Bank announcement on April 9, 2020 as two events that represent the shock and the stimulus, this study finds that COVID-19 caused a negative shock to the global stock markets, especially in emerging markets and for small firms....

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Federal Reserve almost doubled its balance sheet by adding $3 trillion of assets (13% of GDP) in the space of three months, constituting the most aggressive unconventional monetary policy on record. We show that these actions had a substantial effect...

The possibility to investigate the impact of news on stock prices has observed a strong evolution thanks to the recent use of natural language processing (NLP) in finance and economics. In this paper, we investigate COVID-19 news, elaborated with the "Natural Language Toolkit" that uses machine...

We model the learning process of market traders during the unprecedented COVID-19 event. We introduce a behavioral heterogeneous agents' model with bounded rationality by including a correction mechanism through representativeness (Gennaioli et al., 2015). To inspect the market crash induced by...

The debate on the UK leaving the European Union is still hot and ongoing today due to many economic, political, social, and other consequences on many different countries over the world. This paper focuses on the reactions of selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) and South and Eastern...