Recovering the FOMC Risk Premium

61 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2020 Last revised: 25 Apr 2022

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Hong Liu

Washington University in St. Louis - Olin Business School; Fudan University - China Institute of Economics and Finance

Xiaoxiao Tang

University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics

Guofu Zhou

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School

Date Written: April 16, 2022

Abstract

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings are among the most important economic events. We propose a novel method to recover the FOMC risk premium and drift sizes. Empirically, we find that for the 192 meetings from 1996 to 2019, the FOMC risk premium varies across meetings, from 1 to 326 basis points (bps) with an average of 45 bps. We obtain an out-of-sample R-squared of 7.51% when using the recovered FOMC premium to predict the meeting returns around the announcement. The average predicted upward drift size is 101 bps, and the average predicted downward drift size is 129 bps, matching well with the realized ones.

Keywords: Options, FOMC Meeting, Risk Premium, Drift, Recovery

JEL Classification: G11, G14

Suggested Citation

Liu, Hong and Tang, Xiaoxiao and Zhou, Guofu, Recovering the FOMC Risk Premium (April 16, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3553572 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3553572

Hong Liu

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Fudan University - China Institute of Economics and Finance ( email )

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Xiaoxiao Tang (Contact Author)

University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management - Department of Finance & Managerial Economics ( email )

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Guofu Zhou

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School ( email )

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United States
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