 Stock market volatility and public information flow: A non-linear perspectiveKristoffer Pons Bertelsen, Daniel Borup and Johan Stax Jakobsen Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 204, issue C Abstract: The relationship between the level of stock market volatility and public information flow is non-linear, resembling a bell-shaped function. Medium levels of information flow generate heightened volatility, whereas weak and strong information flows do not, regardless of whether news are negative or positive. This novel empirical finding is established in a new realized GARCH model with time-varying intercept, measuring changes in the overall volatility level, which is governed by a new measure of daily macroeconomic news flow. We also device a test for model specification. States of medium information flow are characterized by elevated disagreement about the future stance of the economy compared to states of weak or strong information flow, such that our findings are explained by disagreement equilibrium-based models. We confirm our findings on international data. Keywords: News analytics; Mixture-distribution hypothesis; Realized GARCH; Smooth transitioning; Stock market volatility; GARCH-MIDAS (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:204:y:2021:i:c:s0165176521001828 DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109905 Access Statistics for this article Economics Letters is currently edited by Economics Letters Editorial Office More articles in Economics Letters from Elsevier |
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