The Macroeconomic Announcement Premium

Jessica Wachter () and Yicheng Zhu

No 24432, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Empirical studies demonstrate striking patterns in stock market returns in relation to scheduled macroeconomic announcements. First, a large proportion of the total equity premium is realized on days with macroeconomic announcements, despite the small number of such days. Second, the relation between market betas and expected returns is far stronger on announcement days as compared with non-announcement days. Third, risk as measured by volatilities and betas is equal on both types of days. We present a model with rare events that jointly explains these phenomena. In our model, which is solved in closed form, agents learn about a latent disaster probability from scheduled announcements. We quantitatively account for the empirical findings, along with other facts about the market portfolio.

JEL-codes: G11 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-03
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