Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153611 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1177
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
In their seminal paper French and Roll (1986) postulate that public information affects prices before anyone can trade on it. In contrast, several models assuming heterogeneous investors show that public news releases are directly followed by high trading volume. Empirical evidence on this question is still mixed, primarily due to the lack of sufficiently precise data. This paper examines the process of price adjustment to public news in an electronic limit order market, based on very precise information from the largest European bond futures market. The results show that the price response to public news is gradual and accompanied by trading. Good (bad) news releases are followed by a sequence of positive (negative) returns and a large buying (selling) activity in the first seconds after the news release.
Subjects: 
information processing
macroeconomic announcements
market microstructure
price adjustment
JEL: 
E44
G14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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