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5 Conclusion
From short-term, European market participants’ reactions
perspective, we approached most representative equity indices
on daily basis along with using the ECB’s announcements in our
event-study. Despite the fact, that event-study is very common
and popular among the authors, we contribute to existing
literature as one of the first attempts to use this methodology in
order to explain equity markets’ participants sentiment changes
brought to markets by the central banks’ announcement. Our
results show, that announcement of continuance, expanding or
extending the QE programmes cause positive equity markets
reactions. On the other hand, initial announcements about
intended non-standard monetary policy instruments cause
portfolio rebalancing towards assets that are subject of direct
matter from the intended programme’s perspective, however
those initial reactions are overwhelmed by positive returns
during next periods – supporting portfolio rebalancing theory.
Additionally, we argue, that the QE decreased volatility also in
the equity markets over the reference period (see e.g. Dondoni et
al., 2018; Bhansali and Harris, 2018). Obtained results should
serve as guidance for positioning in environment where the QE
will be applied. However, inevitable policy normalization or
quantitative tightening should be examined in the future, along
with other less significant equity indices.
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