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Is the Intrinsic Value of Macroeconomic News Announcements Related to Their Asset Price Impact?

FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-46

58 Pages Posted: 19 Dec 2016 Last revised: 7 Jul 2021

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Thomas Gilbert

University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics

Chiara Scotti

Bank of Italy

Georg Strasser

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research

Clara Vega

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: April, 2015

Abstract

The literature documents a heterogeneous asset price response to macroeconomic news announcements. We explain this variation with a novel measure of the intrinsic value of an announcement - the announcement's ability to nowcast GDP growth, inflation, and the Federal Funds Target Rate-and decompose it into the announcement's relation to fundamentals, a timeliness premium, and a revision premium. We find that differences in intrinsic value can explain a significant fraction of the variation in the announcements' price impact on Treasury bond yields. The announcements' timeliness and relation to fundamentals are the most important characteristics in explaining this variation.

JEL Classification: C53, D83, E37, E44, E47, G14

Suggested Citation

Gilbert, Thomas and Scotti, Chiara and Strasser, Georg H. and Vega, Clara, Is the Intrinsic Value of Macroeconomic News Announcements Related to Their Asset Price Impact? (April, 2015). FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-46, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2886812 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.046r1

Thomas Gilbert (Contact Author)

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Chiara Scotti

Bank of Italy ( email )

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Georg H. Strasser

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research ( email )

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Clara Vega

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( email )

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United States

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