Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 5, 2022 erstellt
Description:
This study investigates the announcement effects of the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) ETF purchase program on equity prices, focusing on the policy change made on March 19, 2021 when the BOJ announced that it would no longer purchase Nikkei225-tracking and JPX400-tracking ETFs but would purchase more TOPIX-tracking ETFs. A regression of intraday stock returns revealed that the announcement of a future decrease (increase) in the amount of BOJ purchases has the instantaneous effect of decreasing (increasing) stock prices and that this effect is particularly evident for stocks the BOJ stopped purchasing