Aguiar-Conraria, Luís; Martins, Manuel M. F.; Soares, … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
This paper assesses the relation between the yield curve and the main macroeconomic variables in the U.S. between early 1960s and 2010 across time and frequencies, using wavelet analyses. The shape of the yield curve is modelled by latent factors corresponding to its level, slope and curvature,...