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We examine the empirical evidence on the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany using the Campbell-Shiller (1991) regressions and a vector-autoregressive" methodology. We argue that anomalies in the U.S. term...
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We examine the empirical evidence on the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany using the Campbell-Shiller (1991) regressions and a vector-autoregressive" methodology. We argue that anomalies in the U.S. term...
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Economic theory predicts that intertemporal decisions depend critically on expectations about future outcomes. Using …
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Using a unique data set of individual professional forecasts, we document disagreement about the future path of monetary policy, particularly at longer horizons. The stark differences in short rate forecasts imply strong disagreement about the risk-return trade-off of longer-term bonds....
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This paper reviews the literature on the relation between short- and long-term interest rates. It summarizes the mixed evidence on the expectations hypothesis of the term structure: when long rates are high relative to short rates, short rates tend to rise as implied by the expectations...
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We explore the effects of official targeting policy on the term-structure of nominal interest rates, adapting relevant insights from theoretical work on "peso problems" to account for realistic infrequency of target changes. Our analysis of daily U.S. interest rates and newly available...
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The expectations theory of the term structure implies that the spread between a longer-term interest rate and a shorter … the longer-term bond tends to fall, contrary to the expectations theory; at the same time, the shorter-term interest rate … tends to rise, just as the expectations theory requires. We discuss several possible interpretations of these findings. We …
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, however, we are unable to reject the expectations theory, in that a steeper yield curve reflects a one-for-one increase in …
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