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Is Macroeconomic Announcement News Priced?

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  • Peter De Goeij

    (Tilburg University)

  • Jiehui Hu

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We test whether news contained in macroeconomic announcements (MEAs) is priced in the cross-section of stock returns. When including news on a set of widely followed individual macroeconomic fundamentals in the cross-section of stock returns, estimates of their prices of risk are consistent with the explanation that good news on the economy is bad news for stocks during expansions. In contrast, during contractions, good news on the economy is good news for stocks as well. We find, however, that for most macroeconomic news events, their prices of risk are estimated imprecisely due to lack of data.

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  • Peter De Goeij & Jiehui Hu, 2016. "Is Macroeconomic Announcement News Priced?," Bankers, Markets & Investors, ESKA Publishing, issue 143, pages 4-17, July-Augu.
    • Handle: RePEc:rbq:journl:i:143:p:4-17
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    Keywords

    Economic Risk Premiums; Macroeconomic Announcements;

    JEL classification:

    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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