Bayesian Learning in Financial Markets - Testing for the Relevance of Information Precision in Price Discovery
Centre for Financial Research (CFR), Working Paper 04-10
37 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2005 Last revised: 16 Sep 2010
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Bayesian Learning in Financial Markets - Testing for the Relevance of Information Precision in Price Discovery
Bayesian Learning in Financial Markets - Testing for the Relevance of Information Precision in Price Discovery
Date Written: 2004
Abstract
An important claim of Bayesian learning and a standard assumption in price discovery models is that the strength of the price impact of unanticipated information depends on the precision of the news. In this paper, we test for this assumption by analyzing intra-day price responses of CBOT T-bond futures to U.S. employment announcements. By employing additional detail information besides the widely used headline figures, we extract release-specific precision measures which allow to test for the claim of Bayesian updating. We find that the price impact of more precise information is significantly stronger. The results remain stable even after controlling for an asymmetric price response to 'good' and 'bad' news.
Keywords: Bayesian learning, information precision, macroeconomic announcements, asymmetric price response, financial markets, high-frequency data
JEL Classification: E44, G14
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