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title: The Value of Private Meetings with Central Bankers
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7674539/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-10-30
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 7674539
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7674539
featured: 2026-10-30
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# The Value of Private Meetings with Central Bankers

Private bilateral meetings between ECB officials and financial institutions correlate with higher trading profits, suggesting selective communication conveys economically valuable central-bank information.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7674539
- Identifier: SSRN 7674539
- Released: 2026-10-28
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 137 (2026-10-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-10-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
- Authors: Rainer F. H. Haselmann, Moritz Kellers, Maik Schmeling, Michael Weber

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