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This paper estimates expected future real interest rates and inflation rates from observed prices of UK government …-linked bonds. It assumes that expected log returns on all bonds are equal, and that expected real interest rates and inflation … inflation expectations forecast actual future inflation more accurately than nominal yields do. The estimated real interest rate …
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The past half-century has seen major shifts in inflation expectations, how inflation comoves with the business cycle … on how inflation is priced in financial markets. Not all inflation episodes are created equal. Using in a New Keynesian … model, we show how "good" inflation can be linked to demand shocks and "bad" inflation to supply shocks driving the economy …
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In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the moments of the yield curve (or alternatively, the term spread) as a predictor of future economic activity, defined as either recessions, or industrial production growth. In this paper, we re-examine the evidence for this predictor for the...
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This paper investigates the hypothesis that surprise changes in the money supply and anticipated inflation (the Mundell … surprises and expected real interest or an inverse relationship between anticipated inflation and expected real interest. These …
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This paper surveys the decline in real interest rates in advanced and emerging economies over the past several decades, linking that process to a range of global factors that have operated with different force in different periods. The paper argues that estimates of long-run equilibrium real...
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explained largely by changes in expected inflation. It presents and tests a model of expected, after-tax real interest rate … changes in anticipated inflation has been below levels anticipated by many investigators; (2) how the measured impact on … did so by an estimated 24 basis points);(4) inflation uncertainty produces no significant impact on interest rates due to …
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We propose a model where monetary policy is the key determinant of aggregate asset prices (financial conditions). Spending decisions are made by a group of agents ("households") that respond to aggregate asset prices, but with noise, delays, and inertia. Asset pricing is determined by a...
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pricing theory: the persistence of the short rate and variability of the long end of the yield curve. We suggest that this …
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inflation and the term structure of real interest rates. The evidence indicates that there is substantial information in the …inflation: the slope of the term structure does have a great deal of predictive power for future changes in inflation … contains no information about the future path of inflation, but it does contain a great deal of information about the term …
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inflation in ten OECD countries. The empirical results on the information in the term structure contrast with those that find … that the level of interest rates help forecast the future level of inflation. Instead, they indicate that for the majority … inflation. The results for France, the United Kingdom and Germany tell a different story, however. In these countries, the term …
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