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The impact of macroeconomic news announcements on the value and volatility of selected foreign exchange rates in EU
Bubniak, Peter ; Fanta, Nicolas (advisor) ; Krištoufek, Ladislav (referee)
Bibliographic note BUBNIAK, Peter. The impact of macroeconomic news announcements on the value and volatility of selected foreign exchange rates in EU. Prague 2019. 47 pp. Bachelor thesis (Bc) Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies. Thesis supervisor: Mgr Nicolas Fanta. Abstract This work analyzes the influence of positive and negative macroeconomic news on the value of exchange rate and volatility. We have chosen EUR/USD, EUR/CZK and USD/CZK as our exchange rates. The influence of macroeconomic news published by Czech national bank and European central bank were analysed. For our purposes were used econometric models GARCH(1,1) and EGARCH(1,1) with both Normal and Student's distribution of error terms. One of the major outcomes were the importance of macroeconomic news on value and volatility on the exhcange rates. For each exchange rate has effect different macroeconomic index. The crucial are: Consumer price index and Harmonised Index of Consumer Pirces, unemplyoment rate and PRIBOR and EURIBOR. Another conclusion was that our financial dataset displays the main nature of volatility. JEL Classification C22, E00, E52, E58, F3, F4, F31, G1, G13, G14 Key words financial market, exchange rate, ARCH model, GARCH model, volatility Authors e-mail bubniak.peter@gmail.com...
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