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SUN 4-1: Risk Factors
Time:
Sunday, 07/Dec/2025:
8:30am - 9:25am
Presentations
So Many Jumps, So Little News
Yacine Ait-Sahalia1 , Chen Xu Li 2 , Chenxu Li3
1 Princeton University, USA; 2 Renmin University of China, China; 3 Peking University, China
This paper relates jumps in high frequency stock prices to firm-level, industry and macroeconomic news, in the form of machine-readable releases from Thomson Reuters News Analytics. Most relevant news, both idiosyncratic and systematic, leads quickly to price jumps, as market efficiency suggests they should. However, in the reverse direction, we find that the vast majority of intraday price jumps do not have identifiable public news that can explain them, in a departure from the ideal of a fair, orderly and efficient market. We show that jumps without news do not substantially correlate with observable proxies for asymmetric or private information, and that microstructure-driven variables have some limited power to help predict the occurrence of jumps without news.