We show that using data which are properly available in real time when assessing the sensitivity of asset prices to economic news leads to different empirical findings that when data availability and timing issues are ignored. We do this by focusing on a particular example, namely Chen, Roll and Ross (1986), and examine whether innovations to economic variables can be viewed as risks that are rewarded in asset markets. Our findings support the view that data uncertainty is sufficiently prevalent to warrant careful use of real-time data when forming real-time news measures, and in general when undertaking empirical financial investigations involving macroeconomic data.
Nous démontrons que l'utilisation de données qui sont disponibles en temps réel pour établir la sensibilité des prix d'actifs aux nouvelles économiques mène à des résultats empiriques différents de ceux obtenus lorsque la disponibilité des données et les considérations temporelles ne sont pas prises en compte. Pour ce faire, nous nous concentrons sur un exemple en particulier, c'est-à-dire Chen, Roll et Ross (1986), et nous regardons si les innovations aux variables économiques peuvent être perçues comme étant des risques qui sont récompensés dans les marchés des actifs. Nos résultats entérinent la présomption que l'incertitude des données est suffisamment prévalente pour assurer une utilisation prudente des données en temps réel lors de l'établissement de mesures de nouvelles en temps réel, et en général lorsqu'on entreprend des enquêtes financières empiriques impliquant des données macroéconomiques.
Download Info
To download:
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the
proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained
in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read
the IDEAS help
page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS
site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
Find related papers by JEL classification: E17 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Forecasting and Simulation E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
References listed on IDEAS Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.:
Cited by: (explanations, Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.)
Wolfgang Eggert & Martin Kolmar, .
"Contests with Size Effects,"
EPRU Working Paper Series
02-04, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
[Downloadable!]
Other versions:
Did you know? Citation analysis on IDEAS includes online papers that are freely accessible and whose text could be automatically analyzed, currently about 210000 papers.