Can Market Making of Last Resort Calm the European Stock Markets? The Result of Quantile Regressions on a Sample of Six European Countries
Abstract
Stock market indices are the benchmark of valuation uncertainty. Funding conditions can have an impact on the discounting process. Therefore time-premium, country-specific premia as well as (un)conventional monetary policy should be considered when studying market volatility. The aim of our research is to identify the effects of the unconventional monetary policy of European central banks on stock markets and to explore specific aspects of the relationship between domestic quantitative easing and the influence of the ECB, through the pattern of small, open economies in Europe. This study employs quantile panel regression to compare the 25% (calming) and 75% (stressed) scenarios of quarterly averaged conditional variance and compares them with an ordinary linear panel regression.
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