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A study using out-of-sample regressions to determine how well the 10-year, 3-month yield spread predicts future real GDP growth. The author finds that although the yield curve is a good predictor over the entire 30-year sample period, it has become much less accurate over the last decade.
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The recent record-setting economic expansion and the accompanying record-setting bull market in stocks are often attributed to Federal Reserve interest rate policy and increased productivity. But if interest rates behave differently when productivity changes, interest rate policy may need to...
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The interest rates for bonds of different maturities are related, but the interplay of factors that influence these rates is not easy to tease apart. The author leads the reader through the development of a model of the term structure of interest rates, then works with the model to provide some...
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Conventional wisdom on bank diversification confuses risk with failure. This article clarifies the distinction and … shows how increasing bank size may increase bank risk, even though it lessens the probability of failure and lowers the …
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In the standard solution to the principal–agent problem, a risk-neutral agent bears all the risk. The author shows that …, in fact, multiple solutions exist, and often the risk-neutral agent is not the sole bearer of risk. As risk aversion … approaches zero, the unique risk-averse solution converges to the risk-neutral solution, wherein the agent bears the least amount …
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