In order to analyse the interest rate transmission mechanism, we study daily Euro-rates term structure for the US, Germany, and the UK between 1983 and 1997. We estimate multivariate VECM-GARCH models, which take into account moste of the usual features of financial data (non-stationarity,...

Aufgrund der einzel- und gesamtwirtschaftlichen Relevanz von Zinsänderungen ist das Interesse an Zinsprognosen traditionell sehr groß. Dennoch finden sich in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur nur relativ wenige Studien, welche die Prognosegüte ökonometrischer Verfahren "out of sample"...

Motivated by economic-theory concepts - the Fisher hypothesis and the theory of the term structure - we consider a small set of simple bivariate closed-loop time-series models for the prediction of price inflation and of long- and short-term interest rates. The set includes vector...