Testing the Expectations Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Using Model-Selection Methods
In this paper, we propose a model-selection approach to testing the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates. Our method is based on the posterior information criterion (PIC) developed and analyzed by Phillips and Ploberger (1994, 1996) and extended to provide order estimation of cointegrating rank by Chao and Phillips (1997). This methodology has the advantage that issues of order selectioni.e., the determination of lag length and cointegrating rank in a vector autoregressionand hypothesis testing are treated within the same framework. Applying our procedure to interest-rate data from the International Financial Statistics, we find the expectations theory to be inconsistent with the data.
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1998
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Authors: | Chao John C. ; Chaoshin, Chiao |
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Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics. - De Gruyter, ISSN 1558-3708. - Vol. 2.1998, 4, p. 1-16
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De Gruyter |
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