This study provides current, new empirical evidence on the impact of the U.S. federal budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yield on nominal ten-year U.S. Treasury notes. The study is couched within an open loanable funds model that includes an ex ante real short term real interest rate...

This exploratory note empirically investigates determinants of the annual percentage rate of return on commercial bank assets over the period 1959-1998. The findings indicate that this rate of return has been an increasing function of the average annual interest rate yield on three-year U.S....

This study empirically investigates the impact of the federal budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yields on seven and ten year treasury notes over the 1992–2003 period. To measure the budget deficit, the primary budget deficit, which excludes net interest payments by the treasury,...

This study empirically investigates the impact of the federal budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yields on seven and ten year treasury notes over the 1992?2003 period. To measure the budget deficit, the primary budget deficit, which excludes net interest payments by the treasury, is...

This empirical note studies the impact of the net budget deficits of all levels of government in the U.S. combined on ten-year Treasury notes for the study period 1955-1984. It is found that this total net budget deficit acted to elevate the yield on ten-year Treasury notes.