Čt 05.12.2024 | 14:00 | Room 402 | Macro Research Seminar

Peter Karadi (European Central Bank) "Disentangling Central Bank Information, Fed Response to News, and Monetary Policy Shocks"

Čt 05.12.2024

Peter Karadi (European Central Bank) "Disentangling Central Bank Information, Fed Response to News, and Monetary Policy Shocks"

Peter Karadi, Ph.D.

European Central Bank


Authors: Peter Karadi and Marek Jarocinski

Abstract: The paper separately identifies three components of high-frequency surprises around Fed announcements: a monetary policy shock, a central bank information shock (CBI, Jarocinski-Karadi,2020), a Fed response to news shock (FRN, Bauer-Swanson(2023). It achieves identification by utilizing both the high frequency co-movement of interest rate and stock price surprises and the predictability of surprises by preceding public news. It estimates the dynamic impacts of the shocks in a monthly Bayesian VAR and confirms the robust presence of central bank information effects. It finds that the role of the FRN shock is marginal in the baseline sample with a broad array of Fed announcements. The monetary policy shock purged from the impact of both CBI and FRN shocks generates impulse responses in line with theoretical predictions.