This paper introduces a non-parametric framework to statistically examine how news events, such as company or macroeconomic announcements, contribute to the pre- and post-event jump dynamics of stock prices under the intraday seasonality of the news and jumps. We demonstrate our framework, which has several advantages …
We present a Hawkes model approach to foreign exchange market in which the high frequency price dynamics is affected by a self exciting mechanism and an exogenous component, generated by the pre-announced arrival of macroeconomic news. By focusing on time windows around the news announcement, we find that the model is …
Improved volatility forecasts for U.S. stocks using social media and news data.
problem Challenges in forecasting equity market volatility due to infrequency and variability of macroeconomic announcements.
method Estimating public attention and sentiment towards scheduled macroeconomic variables using various data sources and machine learning.
result Significant improvement in volatility forecasts for U.S. stocks, up to 14.99% on average.
This study analyzes how the Indian stock market reacts to budget announcements using fractal methods.
problem Understanding the impact of Union Budget announcements on the Indian stock market.
method Utilizes fractal interpolation function and fractal dimensional analysis to study the NIFTY50 index over -15 to +15 days post-budget day.
result The budget announcements significantly affect the Indian stock market, as evidenced by average abnormal return and cumulative abnormal return.
The paper identifies key macroeconomic events affecting exchange rate volatility.
problem Understanding which macroeconomic events impact exchange rate volatility.
method Data-driven approach to select relevant macroeconomic events using sparsity-based methods.
result The identified macroeconomic events significantly impact exchange rate volatility.
Considered an important macroeconomic indicator, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) on Manufacturing generally assumes that PMI announcements will produce an impact on stock markets. International experience suggests that stock markets react to negative PMI news. In this research, we empirically investigate the stock…
This study shows how monetary uncertainty affects stock market reactions to macroeconomic news.
problem Understanding stock market reactions to macroeconomic news under varying levels of monetary uncertainty.
method Decomposes stock market response into cash flow and risk-free rate channels, analyzing time-varying effects.
result High monetary uncertainty weakens the positive stock market response to macroeconomic news.
Study shows how macroeconomic news affects intraday price and order flow dynamics.
problem Understanding how macroeconomic news impacts intraday price and order flow dynamics.
method Structural VAR model identified through heteroskedasticity, estimated at one-second frequency for each 15-minute interval.
result Macroeconomic news announcements reshape price-flow dynamics, with significant impacts on price and flow impacts at the one-second horizon.
NAPLES resolves lead-lag analysis challenges in non-synchronous high-frequency data.
problem Challenges in analyzing lead-lag effects due to non-synchronous observations and high-frequency data.
method NAPLES (Negative And Positive lead-lag EStimator) resolves these challenges.
result NAPLES has a strong correlation with actual lead-lag effects, including those triggered by macroeconomic announcements.
The macroeconomic climate influences operations with regard to, e.g., raw material prices, financing, supply chain utilization and demand quotas. In order to adapt to the economic environment, decision-makers across the public and private sectors require accurate forecasts of the economic outlook. Existing predictive f…
Bitcoin reacts negatively to inflation surprises, contrary to belief.
problem Bitcoin's ability to hedge inflation is questioned.
method Examined cryptocurrency responses to macroeconomic news announcements.
result Bitcoin's price decreases by 24 bps in response to inflationary surprises.
Investor emotions predict earnings announcements, but excitement lowers returns.
problem The impact of investor emotions on earnings announcements and their returns.
method Social media data analysis over a decade to test the relationship between investor emotions and earnings announcements.
result Excitement about earnings announcements is associated with lower announcement returns.
Enhanced regime shifts detection using unstructured text and financial data.
problem Detecting regime shifts in financial markets is challenging due to noisy and multicollinear data.
method Combines LLM reasoning on unstructured text and statistical validation on financial time series.
result Framework achieves F1 score of 0.82, outperforming pure data-driven methods.
Agol's announcement proved a full classification of certain Kleinian groups.
problem Classifying non-free Kleinian groups generated by two parabolic transformations.
method Full proof of Agol's announcement.
result Classification of non-free Kleinian groups generated by two parabolic transformations.
This study examines how earnings announcements affect option volatility and pricing.
problem The impact of earnings announcements on option volatility and pricing.
method Analysis of extremely short-term options data to study bimodality and concavity in IV curves.
result Investors pay a premium to hedge against extreme volatility during earnings announcements in the presence of concave IV smiles.
The study classifies policy announcements' impact on stock market volatility.
problem Evaluating the impact of Central Bank announcements on stock market volatility.
method Proposed a model-based classification method using Markov Switching dynamics and Multiplicative Error Model.
result Successful classification of 144 European Central Bank announcements on stock market volatility.
The paper sets limits on the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts based on statistical moments and trade volumes.
problem Uncertainty in predicting macroeconomic variables like prices and returns.
method Defines theoretical lower bounds of uncertainty and upper limits on forecast accuracy based on statistical moments and trade volumes.
result Accuracy of forecasts of probabilities of macroeconomic variables doesn't exceed Gaussian approximations.
Predicts stock price changes based on clinical trial announcements.
problem Forecasting the impact of clinical trial results on pharma stock prices.
method BERT for sentiment analysis, Temporal Fusion Transformer for forecasting, graph convolution network for event relationships, gradient boosting for price change prediction.
result Identifies two crucial factors: drug portfolio size and network effect of related events.
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Media tone around earnings announcements predicts stock returns.
problem Determining if media tone around earnings announcements provides useful information for stock prices.
method Conducted an event study on media tone around earnings announcements for nonfinancial S&P 500 firms.
result Media tone around earnings announcements predicts abnormal stock returns.
Complexity science offers new insights into macroeconomics and finance.
problem Insufficient understanding of economic and financial phenomena.
method Adopting complexity science to better understand complex systems.
result Complex system characteristics can benefit financial analysts, regulators, and policymakers.
The paper uses machine learning to forecast macroeconomic outcomes with high-dimensional data.
problem Forecasting the full conditional distribution of macroeconomic outcomes.
method Systematically integrating three key principles: high-dimensional data with regularization, rigorous out-of-sample validation, and incorporating nonlinearities.
result Regularization via shrinkage is essential to control model complexity, while nonlinearities yield limited improvements in predictive accuracy.
Lead/lag relationships are an important stylized fact at high frequency. Some assets follow the path of others with a small time lag. We provide indicators to measure this phenomenon using tick-by-tick data. Strongly asymmetric cross-correlation functions are empirically observed, especially in the future/stock case. W…
The study examines how market trade randomness influences price and return volatility.
problem The accuracy of predicting market-based volatilities and macroeconomic variables is limited.
method Analyzes time series of trade values and volumes, and develops econometric methodologies for predicting volatilities.
result Current macroeconomic models underestimate the accuracy of predicting market-based volatilities and macroeconomic variables.
The above title is the same, but with "semisimple" instead of "simple," as that of a notice by N. Kowalsky. There, she announced many theorems on the subject of actions of simple Lie groups preserving a Lorentz structure. Unfortunately, she published proofs for essentially only half of the announced results before her …
Educational game on crypto investment helps students grasp macroeconomics.
problem Weak connections between microeconomic decision-making and macroeconomic concepts in classroom games.
method Design and study of an educational game on cryptocurrency investment.
result Engages students in understanding macroeconomics through incentivized individual investment decisions.
Study finds macroeconomic indicators predict health workforce and infrastructure measures.
problem Evaluating the predictive value of macroeconomic indicators for public health targets.
method Examined multiple forecasting approaches including neural networks, generalized additive models, random forests, and time series models with exogenous indicators.
result Macroeconomic indicators provide consistent and reproducible predictive signals for health workforce and infrastructure measures, but less so for other targets.
We study an option pricing framework that accounts for the price impact of an earnings announcement (EA), and analyze the behavior of the implied volatility surface prior to the event. On the announcement date, we incorporate a random jump to the stock price to represent the shock due to earnings. We consider different…
News attention to financial intermediaries and crises predicts excess bond premium and macroeconomic movements.
problem Drivers of the excess bond premium (EBP).
method News attention to 180 topics captures up to 80% of EBP variation and forecasts macroeconomic movements.
result News attention to financial intermediaries and crises drives up the EBP and predicts macroeconomic downturns.
This thesis identifies share buybacks and predicts their impact on stock performance.
problem Recognizing and predicting the impact of share buybacks on stock performance.
method NLP approaches for automated detection of share buybacks, machine learning models for prediction.
result Most companies underperform after a share buyback, but some significantly outperform.
Machine Learning improves macroeconomic forecasting by capturing nonlinearities.
problem Improving macroeconomic forecasting accuracy.
method Study four features (nonlinearities, regularization, cross-validation, loss function) in data-rich and data-poor environments.
result Nonlinearity is the key to improving forecasting accuracy.
Study predicts stock price direction on earnings announcement days using multi-modal deep learning.
problem Predicting stock price movements during earnings announcements is challenging due to market noise and discontinuities.
method Constructed a multi-modal feature space combining fundamental metrics, technical indicators, and sentiment scores from financial news articles. Evaluated LSTM and Transformer models against a baseline.
result Transformer model outperforms LSTM in identifying volatile movements, achieving higher macro F1-score.
A model-free framework extracts risk-neutral densities from short-dated options.
problem Arbitrage and bid-ask spread issues in short-dated options.
method Develops ARIES for filtering static arbitrage and SEDEx for density extraction.
result Robust density extraction across various market conditions and volatility smiles construction.
Study finds financial YouTube channel 3PROTV predicts stock market performance and sentiment changes.
problem Determining the informational value of financial YouTube channels.
method Analyzing 3PROTV's content and its impact on stock market performance and sentiment.
result 3PROTV's content, particularly negative sentiment, predicts stock market performance and sentiment changes.
Bayesian neural networks improve macroeconomic forecasting and model nonlinearities.
problem Handling small T, big K macroeconomic datasets with temporal dependence.
method Developed Bayesian neural networks with mixture activation functions, shrinkage priors, and stochastic volatility.
result BNNs produce precise density forecasts, often better than other methods.
New framework predicts earnings announcements using press release content, surpassing earnings surprises.
problem Predicting stock returns based on earnings press releases.
method Compared traditional and BERT-based embeddings of press releases, finding content as informative as earnings surprises.
result FinBERT yields highest predictive power for earnings announcement returns.
Bank transactions help predict macroeconomic indexes faster and more accurately.
problem Lag in macroeconomic index availability and autoregressive models' limitations in complex scenarios.
method Use financial transactions data to estimate macroeconomic indexes using neural networks and smart sampling.
result Neural network approach outperforms baseline methods on hand-crafted features based on transactions.
Ensemble of MFESNs improves macroeconomic forecasting.
problem Improving accuracy in macroeconomic forecasting.
method Hedge and Follow-the-Leader schemes applied to MFESNs.
result Ensemble models outperform individual models in forecasting.
This study improves stock price prediction by incorporating anticipated macroeconomic policy changes.
problem Improving accuracy in stock price prediction.
method Incorporates future expected macroeconomic policy changes and historical stock prices.
result Our method outperforms conventional approaches with an RMSE of 1.61 compared to 1.75.
The study analyzes macroeconomic factors affecting copper futures volatility and long-term correlation with S&P 500.
problem Understanding the impact of macroeconomic variables on copper futures volatility and long-term correlation.
method Employed GARCH-MIDAS and DCC-MIDAS modeling frameworks to examine the influence of low-frequency macroeconomic variables on copper futures returns and long-term correlation with S&P 500.
result PPI is the most efficient macroeconomic variable impacting copper futures returns, and MIDAS filter improves model fitness and long-run relationship.
The attack intensity of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is increasing every year. Botnets based on internet of things (IOT) devices are now being used to conduct DDoS attacks. The estimation of direct and indirect economic damages caused by these attacks is a complex problem. One of the indirect damage of …
We show how random matrix theory can be applied to develop new algorithms to extract dynamic factors from macroeconomic time series. In particular, we consider a limit where the number of random variables N and the number of consecutive time measurements T are large but the ratio N / T is fixed. In this regime the unde…
HANET combines LSTM and attention mechanisms for better financial forecasting.
problem Lack of distinct macroeconomic regimes in financial datasets.
method Hierarchical Cross-Attention mechanism integrating long-run macro contexts with high-frequency market dynamics.
result HANET outperforms neural forecasters, especially during turbulent periods.
Study improves retail demand forecasting by integrating macroeconomic data.
problem Lack of accurate demand forecasting due to incomplete data.
method Enriched time series data with macroeconomic variables; compared regression and machine learning models.
result Improved accuracy in predicting retail demand through comprehensive data integration.
The major perspective of this paper is to provide more evidence into the empirical determinants of capital structure adjustment in different macroeconomics states by focusing and discussing the relative importance of firm-specific and macroeconomic characteristics from an alternative scope in U.S. This study extends th…
A Hawkes process model with a time-varying background rate is developed for analyzing the high-frequency financial data. In our model, the logarithm of the background rate is modeled by a linear model with a relatively large number of variable-width basis functions, and the parameters are estimated by a Bayesian method…
Firms delay write-downs for adverse macroeconomic and industry outcomes but not for firm-specific issues.
problem Timeliness of write-downs for adverse macroeconomic and industry outcomes versus firm-specific issues.
method Comparative analysis of write-downs driven by macroeconomic and industry outcomes versus firm-specific outcomes.
result Firms delay write-downs for adverse macroeconomic and industry outcomes but not for firm-specific issues.
In this paper we sketch some reflections on the pitfalls and inconsistencies of the research program - currently dominant among the profession - aimed at providing microfoundations to macroeconomics along a Walrasian perspective. We argue that such a methodological approach constitutes an unsatisfactory answer to a wel…