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In this paper, I study how mortgage refinancing influences the interest rate pass-through to household budgets via … fixed-rate mortgage contracts in Denmark. I develop a model based on a state-dependent process of household actions that … endogenously determines household refinancing decisions as a function of their incentives. I show that the model leads to a dynamic …
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Conditional yield skewness is an important summary statistic of the state of the economy. It exhibits pronounced variation over the business cycle and with the stance of monetary policy, and a tight relationship with the slope of the yield curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has...
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Conditional yield skewness is an important summary statistic of the state of the economy. It exhibits pronounced variation over the business cycle and with the stance of monetary policy, and a tight relationship with the slope of the yield curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584702
maturity rather than the time to maturity itself. Consequently, the forward rate curve is step-shaped. (ii) In addition, there …
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treasury bills in the primary market, and we also examine the yield households and nonbank firms demand to buy these bills in …
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The links between real and nominal bond risk premia and macroeconomic dynamics are explored quantitatively in a model with nominal rigidities and monetary policy. The estimated model captures macroeconomic and yield curve properties of the U.S. economy, implying significantly positive real term...
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We analyze optimal monetary policy and its implications for asset prices, when aggregate demand has inertia and …
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This paper analyzes the joint dynamic processes of macroeconomic and monetary variables and bond yields in China. We show that macroeconomic variables as well as monetary policy variables have a significant impact on two factors that capture the variation in yields. An increase in the inflation...
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This paper analyzes the effect of the interest rate lower bound on long term sovereign bond spreads in the Euro area. We specify a joint shadow rate term structure model for the risk-free, the German and the Italian sovereign yield curves. In our model, the behavior of long term spreads becomes...
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Based on high-frequency data for Norway and Sweden, we investigate to what extent explicit forward guidance from monetary policy makers, by means of publishing the path of expected future policy rates, affects the market yield curve. We summarise movements in the yield curve by two latent...
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