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From a macroeconomic perspective, the short-term interest rate is a policy instrument under the direct control of the central bank. From a finance perspective, long rates are risk-adjusted averages of expected future short rates. Thus, as illustrated by much recent research, a joint...
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component explains much less of the variation in sectoral regional inflation rates and exhibits much less volatility than …
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USA and Euro area displayed a limited but significant spillover of volatility from money market to longer-term rates. We …
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and inflation, as outlined in the classical study by M. Friedman and Schwartz, mostly disappeared since the early 1980s … find that domestic money (currency component of M1 corrected for the foreign holdings of dollars) contains valuable … information about future movements of US real output and inflation. Statistical evidence here provided thus suggests that the …
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USA and Euro area displayed a limited but significant spillover of volatility from money market to longer-term rates. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138852
From a macroeconomic perspective, the short-term interest rate is a policy instrument under the direct control of the central bank. From a finance perspective, long rates are risk-adjusted averages of expected future short rates. Thus, as illustrated by much recent research, a joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005600450
Despite powerful advances in yield curve modeling in the last twenty years, comparatively little attention has been paid to the key practical problem of forecasting the yield curve. In this paper we do so. We use neither the no-arbitrage approach, which focuses on accurately fitting the cross...
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illustrate that the yield and volatility factors are closely related to industrial capacity utilization, inflation, monetary …
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observable macroeconomic variables (real activity, inflation, and the stance of monetary policy). Our goal is to provide a …
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The popular Nelson-Siegel (1987) yield curve is routinely fit to cross sections of intra-country bond yields, and Diebold and Li (2006) have recently proposed a dynamized version. In this paper we extend Diebold-Li to a global context, modeling a potentially large set of country yield curves in...
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