Is the Intrinsic Value of a Macroeconomic News Announcement Related to Its Asset Price Impact?

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Thomas Gilbert

University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics

Chiara Scotti

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

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: September 8, 2017

Abstract

The literature documents a heterogeneous asset price response to macroeconomic news announcements. We relate this heterogeneity to 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 find that differences across the intrinsic values of several U.S. macroeconomic announcements explain a significant fraction of the variation in the impact each of these announcements has on U.S. Treasury yields. We also decompose the intrinsic value into the announcement's relation to fundamentals, a timeliness premium, and a revision premium, and find that the last two characteristics are the most important ones in explaining the heterogeneous response.

Keywords: Macroeconomic announcements, price discovery, learning, forecasting, nowcasting

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

Suggested Citation

Gilbert, Thomas and Scotti, Chiara and Strasser, Georg H. and Vega, Clara, Is the Intrinsic Value of a Macroeconomic News Announcement Related to Its Asset Price Impact? (September 8, 2017). Journal of Monetary Economics, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2598198 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2598198

Thomas Gilbert

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