Which news moves the euro area bond market?

German Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-31

  Andersson, Magnus ^a   Overby, Lars Jul ^b   Sebestyén, Szabolcs ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

High frequency data; Macroeconomic announcements; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; DATA SET; FINANCIAL MARKET; INVESTMENT; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 59049098482     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2008.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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