Yıldız Akkaya Blake
Monetary Policy
- Division
Monetary Policy Strategy
- Current Position
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Senior Economist
- Fields of interest
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Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
- Education
- 2009-2014
PhD in Economics, Bilkent University
- 2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Boston University
- Professional experience
- 2020-2022
Senior Economist, Monetary Policy Department, Sveriges Riksbank
- 2018-2020
Economist, Macroeconomic Research Division, The National Institute of Economic Research
- 2016-2018
Economist, Modelling Division, Sveriges Riksbank
- 2014-2016
Research Associate, The University of Cambridge
- Teaching experience
- 2014-2016
Macroeconomics (Part 1 and 2A Paper 2), University of Cambridge
- 23 October 2024
- WORKING PAPER SERIES - No. 2994Details
- Abstract
- We construct monetary policy indicators from high-frequency asset price changes following policy announcements, emphasising the concentration of asset price responses along specific dimensions and their leptokurtic distribution. Traditionally, these dimensions are identified by rotating principal components based on economic assumptions that overlook information in excess kurtosis. We employ Varimax rotation, leveraging excess kurtosis without using economic restrictions. Within a set of euro-area risk-free assets Varimax validates policy news along dimensions previously derived from structural identification approaches and rejects evidence of macroinformation shocks. Yet, once adding risky assets Varimax identifies only one risk-free factor in medium- to long-term yields and instead points to additional risk-shift factors.
- JEL Code
- E43 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Money and Interest Rates→Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
E52 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Monetary Policy
E58 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Central Banks and Their Policies
C46 : Mathematical and Quantitative Methods→Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics→Specific Distributions, Specific Statistics
G14 : Financial Economics→General Financial Markets→Information and Market Efficiency, Event Studies, Insider Trading
- 8 February 2024
- ECONOMIC BULLETIN - BOXEconomic Bulletin Issue 1, 2024Details
- Abstract
- Financial markets and analysts significantly underestimated the pace and size of the recent increases in the key ECB interest rates. This box measures the size and dynamics of policy expectation errors. Based on information from the ECB’s Survey of Monetary Analysts, it suggests that these expectation errors were driven mainly by revisions to macroeconomic expectations, indicating that analysts perceived a broadly consistent policy reaction to macroeconomic developments.
- JEL Code
- E52 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit→Monetary Policy
E44 : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics→Money and Interest Rates→Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
G12 : Financial Economics→General Financial Markets→Asset Pricing, Trading Volume, Bond Interest Rates
- 2023
- Sveriges Riksbank Staff Memo
- 2023
- Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series, No 421
- 2020
- Sveriges Riksbank Economic Commentaries
- 2012
- Iktisat Isletme ve Finans