ECB Monetary Policy Surprises: Identification Through Cojumps in Interest Rates
欧洲央行货币政策意外:通过利率共同跳跃识别
This paper proposes a new econometric approach to disentangle two distinct response patterns of the yield curve to monetary policy announcements. Based on cojumps in intraday tick data of short- and long-term interest rate futures, we develop a day-wise test that detects the occurrence of a significant policy surprise and identifies the market perceived source of the surprise. The new test is applied to 133 policy announcements of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the…