Monetary Policy and Stock Market Volatility

Dirk Bleich, Ralf Fendel () and Jan-Christoph Rülke ()
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Ralf Fendel: WHU - School of Management
Jan-Christoph Rülke: WHU - School of Management

Economics Bulletin, 2013, vol. 33, issue 3, 1669-1680

Abstract: We estimate forward-looking interest rate reaction functions in the spirit of Taylor (1993) for four major central banks augmented by implicit volatilities of stock market indices to proxy financial market stress. Our results suggest that the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Bank and the European Central Bank systematically respond to an increase of the implicit volatility by a decrease in the interest rate. We take our results as strong evidence that central banks use interest rates to stabilize financial markets in periods of financial market stress.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Taylor rule; Asset prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07-11
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