The Impact of ECB Monetary Policy Decisions and Communication on the Yield Curve

39 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2006

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Claus Brand

European Central Bank (ECB)

Daniel Buncic

Stockholm Business School

Jarkko Turunen

International Monetary Fund

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Date Written: July 2006

Abstract

We analyse high-frequency changes in the euro area money market yield curve on dates when the ECB regularly sets and communicates decisions on policy interest rates to construct different indicators of monetary policy news relating to policy decisions and to central bank communication. The indicators show that ECB communication during the press conference may result in significant changes in market expectations of the path of monetary policy. Furthermore, our results suggest that these changes have a significant and sizeable impact on medium to long-term interest rates.

Keywords: money market rates, yield curve, ECB, central bank communication

JEL Classification: E43, E58

Suggested Citation

Brand, Claus and Buncic, Daniel and Turunen, Jarkko, The Impact of ECB Monetary Policy Decisions and Communication on the Yield Curve (July 2006). ECB Working Paper No. 657, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=913330 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.913330

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Daniel Buncic

Stockholm Business School ( email )

Stockholm University
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Jarkko Turunen

International Monetary Fund ( email )

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