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We use the term structure of bank CD rates to examine whether maturity-transformation risk is priced into the rates … is strongly related to the amount of maturity-transformation risk that these deposit accounts create. The cost is also …
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International data suggests that fluctuations in the level and volatility of the world interest rate (as measured by the US treasury bill rate) are positively correlated with both the level and volatility of sovereign spreads in emerging economies. We incorporate an estimated time-varying...
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We use equity returns to construct a time-varying measure of the interest rate that we call the zero-beta rate: the expected return of a stock portfolio orthogonal to the stochastic discount factor. The zero-beta rate is high and volatile. In contrast to safe rates, the zero-beta rate fits the...
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We review the literature on multi-horizon currency risk premiums. We show how the multi-horizon implications arise from … between bond and currency risk premiums. This link is strengthened by explicitly accounting for stochastic discount factors …. Information about currency risk premiums at different horizons presents a wealth of new evidence and challenges for existing …
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needs to set. These perceived "mistakes" induce a policy risk premium and may generate a "behind the curve" phenomenon …
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We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected inflation directly lower firms' real discount rates and thereby raise real investment. We...
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shocks, and generate a policy risk premium …
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Benchmark finance and macroeconomic models appear to deliver conflicting estimates of the natural rate and bond risk …* and π*, and not bond risk premia. Global components of unexpected bond returns are influential, while the local components … theory and previous findings …
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show that transition to risk-free reference rates may exacerbate this friction. The adverse impact on credit supply is …
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these conceptual inputs are already available from established portfolio theory, and others represent objects of current or …
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