Yield Curve Reaction to Macroeconomic News in Europe: Disentangling the US Influence

18 Pages Posted: 7 Dec 2007

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Marie Briere

Amundi Asset Management; Paris Dauphine University; Université Libre de Bruxelles

Florian Ielpo

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES)

Date Written: September 30, 2007

Abstract

This paper analyses the response of the Euro yield curve to macroeconomic and monetary policy announcements. We present a new methodology for estimating the reaction of the Euro swap curve to economic news, in a data-rich environment. Given the sharp degree of interdependence between Euro rates and US rates, we propose to use the factors of the US yield curve to disentangle the daily variation in Euro rates stemming from US influence and the variation resulting from European news. We highlight the importance of taking the US yield curve influence into account and investigate the shape of the Euro term structure reaction to a range of news types. We find that the impact of economic announcements on the yield curve shows different patterns according to the news and we provide a hierarchy of the economic figures that have the strongest impact on the different maturities.

Keywords: Announcements, News, Swap Rates, Yield Curve, Interest Rates, Euro Area

JEL Classification: E43, E52, F42

Suggested Citation

Briere, Marie and Ielpo, Florian, Yield Curve Reaction to Macroeconomic News in Europe: Disentangling the US Influence (September 30, 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1054861 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1054861

Marie Briere

Amundi Asset Management ( email )

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Paris Dauphine University ( email )

Université Libre de Bruxelles ( email )

Brussels
Belgium

Florian Ielpo (Contact Author)

Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES) ( email )

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