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Liquidity and information flow around monetary policy announcement

  • Colorado State University
  • Northern Kentucky University

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Abstract

We analyze the effects of monetary policy announcements on stock market liquidity using intraday data. We show that the impairment in liquidity associated with policy announcements occurs primarily after, rather than before, the announcements, and is relatively short lived, lasting about 1.5 hours. Liquidity impairment varies proportionately with the information content of the policy announcement, with larger effects associated with unscheduled announcements and scheduled announcements with larger policy surprises. Overall, our results suggest that informed traders have an information processing advantage over uninformed participants rather than access to private information.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)781-820
Number of pages40
JournalJournal of Money, Credit and Banking
Volume45
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2013

Keywords

  • Depth
  • Event study
  • Liquidity
  • Market efficiency
  • Monetary policy
  • Spread

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