Empirical evidence on jumps in the term structure of the US treasury market
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-16, 23:38authored byDungey, MH, McKenzie, M, Smith, V
The dynamics of US Treasury prices may be interrupted by jumps, and cojumps — where these occur simultaneously across the term structure. This paper finds significant evidence of jumps and cojumps in the US term structure using the Cantor-Fitzgerald tick dataset sampled over the period 2002–2006. While cojumping is frequently found in response to scheduled macroeconomic news announcement, around one-fifth of cojumps occur independently of news. The results are discussed in relation to term structure theories, day of the week effects, asymmetric news effects and trading volume.
History
Publication title
Journal of Empirical Finance
Volume
16
Pagination
430-445
ISSN
0927-5398
Department/School
TSBE
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Place of publication
Netherlands
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