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Financial Policy Announcement Efficiency in Financial Crisis

Applied Economics and Finance

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Title Financial Policy Announcement Efficiency in Financial Crisis
 
Creator Huang, Hanko Ching
Su, Yong Chern
Chang, Wen Chen
 
Description In 2008 financial crisis, stock market turned highly volatile while U.S. government had proposed a series of policies rescuing the economy. This study examines convergence to market efficiency from government financial policies. We find a significant impact of contemporaneous order imbalance on return, while the relation between return and lagged imbalances is insignificant, implying that lagged order imbalances have no predictability on return. From a time-varying GARCH model, we find that explaining power of order imbalance on return declining, implying that volatility plays an important role in return-order imbalance relation. We take a further step to find that there is no strong direct relationship between order imbalances and stock volatility. The story casts on market maker behaviors. Market makers accommodate high inventory levels to mitigate stock volatility on financial policies announcements. An imbalance based trading strategy we develop fails to beat the market. It supports financial policy announcement efficiency.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
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Date 2016-05-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/1598
10.11114/aef.v3i3.1598
 
Source Applied Economics and Finance; Vol 3, No 3 (2016); 172-184
2332-7308
2332-7294
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/aef/article/view/1598/1632