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State-Dependent Stock Market Reactions to Monetary Policy

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  • Troy Davig

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)

  • Jeffrey R. Gerlach

    (College of William and Mary)

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This paper presents a test of the response of stock prices to Federal Reserve policy shocks using a Markov-switching framework. The framework endogenously identifies two distinct regimes. The first is a state where the S&P 500 index exhibits a significantly negative response to unexpected changes in the target federal funds rate in the thirty-minute window bracketing FOMC announcements, a result consistent with previous work. However, the model identifies a second regime from September 1998 to September 2002, in which the response of stock prices to policy shocks is insignificant and over ten times more volatile relative to the other regime.

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  • Troy Davig & Jeffrey R. Gerlach, 2006. "State-Dependent Stock Market Reactions to Monetary Policy," International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 2(4), December.
  • Handle: RePEc:ijc:ijcjou:y:2006:q:4:a:3
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    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
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