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Supply and demand shifts of shorts before Fed announcements during QE1–QE3

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  • McInish, Thomas
  • Neely, Christopher J.
  • Planchon, Jade

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Cohen et al. (2007), find that shifts in the demand curve for shorting predict negative stock returns. We use their approach to examine supply and demand changes at the time of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcements. We show that shifts in the demand for borrowing Treasuries and agencies predict quantitative easing (QE). A reduction in the quantity demanded at all points along the demand curve predicts expansionary QE announcements.

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  • McInish, Thomas & Neely, Christopher J. & Planchon, Jade, 2021. "Supply and demand shifts of shorts before Fed announcements during QE1–QE3," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:200:y:2021:i:c:s016517652030478x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109718
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    Keywords

    Quantitative easing; Treasury bond short interest; Monetary policy; Large-scale asset purchases (LSAP); Agency securities; Treasury securities;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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