1. Demand for Information, Uncertainty, and the Response of U.S. Treasury Securities to News.
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Benamar, Hedi, Foucault, Thierry, and Vega, Clara
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GOVERNMENT securities ,UNCERTAINTY (Information theory) ,CLICK through rate ,INVESTORS ,MACROECONOMICS ,INTEREST rate forecasting ,TREASURY bills ,NEWS websites - Abstract
We use clickstream data to show that investors' demand for information about macroeconomic factors affecting the path of future interest rates is a measure of their uncertainty about this path. In particular, an increase in information demand ahead of influential economic announcements affecting investors' beliefs about future interest rates predicts a stronger reaction of U.S. Treasury note yields to these announcements, as it should if information demand positively covaries with uncertainty. This relationship does not vanish after using standard measures of uncertainty as predictors, suggesting that clickstream data contain unique information about investors' uncertainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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