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Table 11 Europe – Cumulative Averaged Abnormal Returns (CAARs) over the 5-day event window per Monetary Policy Announcement Category

From: The impact of monetary policy interventions on banking sector stocks: an empirical investigation of the COVID-19 crisis

Policy category

CAAR value (%)

Pos: Neg CAR

Number of CARs

Patell Z

Csect T

Generalized sign Z

Generalized rank Z

Skewness corrected T

Interest rate

− 0.28

120:150

270

2.90E − 01

3.76E − 01

1.44E − 01

4.59E − 01

3.68E − 01

Foreign exchange

− 0.20

140:130

270

6.60E − 01

5.95E − 01

4.41E − 01

6.69E − 01

5.87E − 01

Lending operations

− 0.17

54:54

108

6.96E − 01

7.87E − 01

9.31E − 01

9.21E − 01

7.81E − 01

Asset purchases

− 0.13

81:99

180

9.74E − 01

8.00E − 01

2.63E − 01

9.05E − 01

7.96E − 01

Other

− 3.92

0:18

18

4.00E − 04

8.87E − 08

0.00E + 00

3.31E − 11

1.98E − 07

  1. Significance tests and corresponding p values are noted on the right-hand side columns, with significance (p value < 0.05) denoted with a bold underlined value