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Clara Vega

Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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Cited by 7674

Micro effects of macro announcements: Real-time price discovery in foreign exchange

…, T Bollerslev, FX Diebold, C Vega - American economic …, 2003 - aeaweb.org
Using a new data set consisting of six years of real-time exchange-rate quotations,
macroeconomic expectations, and macroeconomic realizations, we characterize the conditional …

Stock price reaction to public and private information

C Vega - Journal of Financial Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
I use Easley and O’Hara's [1992, Journal of Finance 47, 577–604] private information-based
trading variable, PIN, together with a comprehensive public news database to empirically …

The on-the-run liquidity phenomenon

P Pasquariello, C Vega - Journal of Financial Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We test the implications of a model of multi-asset speculative trading in which liquidity
differentials between on-the-run and off-the-run US Treasury bonds ensue from endowment …

Real-time price discovery in global stock, bond and foreign exchange markets

…, T Bollerslev, FX Diebold, C Vega - Journal of international …, 2007 - Elsevier
Using a unique high-frequency futures dataset, we characterize the response of US, German
and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time US macroeconomic news…

Rise of the machines: Algorithmic trading in the foreign exchange market

…, B Chiquoine, E Hjalmarsson, C Vega - The Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We study the impact of algorithmic trading (AT) in the foreign exchange market using a long
time series of high‐frequency data that identify computer‐generated trading activity. We find …

Do energy prices respond to US macroeconomic news? A test of the hypothesis of predetermined energy prices

L Kilian, C Vega - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
We propose a formal test of the hypothesis that energy prices are predetermined with
respect to US macroeconomic aggregates. The test is based on regressing changes in daily …

Soft information in earnings announcements: News or noise?

E Demers, C Vega - 2008 - federalreserve.gov
This paper examines whether the" soft" information contained in the text of management's
quarterly earnings press releases is incrementally informative over the company's reported" …

Informed and strategic order flow in the bond markets

P Pasquariello, C Vega - The Review of Financial Studies, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We study the role played by private and public information in the process of price formation
in the US Treasury bond market. To guide our analysis, we develop a parsimonious model of …

International transmission of US monetary policy shocks: Evidence from stock prices

J Ammer, C Vega, J Wongswan - Journal of Money, Credit and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This paper analyzes intraday changes in firm‐level equity prices around interest rate
announcements to assess the transmission of US monetary policy to the global economy. We …

Is the intrinsic value of a macroeconomic news announcement related to its asset price impact?

T Gilbert, C Scotti, G Strasser, C Vega - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
The literature documents a heterogeneous asset price response to macroeconomic news
announcements. We relate this heterogeneity to a novel measure of the intrinsic value of an …