Macroeconomic Attention and Announcement Risk Premia

Adlai Fisher, Charles Martineau and Jinfei Sheng

The Review of Financial Studies, 2022, vol. 35, issue 11, 5057-5093

Abstract: We construct macroeconomic attention indexes (MAI), which are new measures of attention to different macroeconomic risks, including unemployment and monetary policy. Individual MAI tend to increase around related announcements and following changes in related fundamentals. Further, bad news raises attention more than good news. For unemployment and FOMC, attention predicts announcement risk premiums and implied volatility changes with large economic magnitudes. Our findings support theories of endogenous attention and announcement risk premiums, while demonstrating future research directions, including that announcements can raise new concerns. Macroeconomic announcements are important not only for contents and timing but also for attention.Authors have furnished an Internet Appendix, which is available on the Oxford University Press Web site next to the link to the final published paper online.

JEL-codes: E20 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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