The Effect of ECB Forward Guidance on Policy Expectations

Paul Hubert and Fabien Labondance

No 2016-12, Working Papers from CRESE

Abstract: This paper investigates the instantaneous and dynamic effects of ECB forward guidance announcements on the term structure of private short-term interest rate expectations. We estimate the static and dynamic impact of forward guidance on private agents' expectations about future short-term interest rates using a high-frequency methodology and an ARCH model, complemented with local projections. We find that ECB forward guidance announcements decrease most of the term structure of private short-term interest rate expectations, this being robust to several specifications. The effect is stronger on longer maturities and persistent.

Keywords: Central bank communication; Short-term interest rate expectations; OIS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Working Paper: The effect of ECB forward guidance on policy expectations (2016)
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