This paper reviews 22 years of UK monetary policy (1971-1992) using official record from the Quarterly Bulletin of the Bank of England. A definition of policy shocks, which allows for the exclusion of cases of interest rate increases, which were unrelated to the monetary policy objectives, is...

This paper develops an arbitrage-free macroeconomic model of the yield curve and uses this to explain the behaviour of the UK Treasury bond market. Unlike previous models of this type, which assume a homoscedastic error process I develop a general affine model which allows volatility to be...

In this paper, we used modified multivariate EGARCH-M models to assess the relation between the equity risk premium, macroeconomic risk, and inflationary expectations. To rationalise this link between equity risk premia and macroeconomic volatilities, we built our empirical study on the...