This brief note builds on Sabol (2015) by describing ways to account for forecasting errors made about the expected path of short-term interest rates in a model of expected bond returns. I consider the Cieslak and Povala (2014) model of monetary policy expectations frictions as one such measure...

Cieslak and Povala (2011) discovered that conditioning levels of interest rates on trend inflation helps to forecast bond returns. This note explores that theme using other measures of trend including trend GDP growth. I find that a model free de-trending of rates by trend GDP performs as well...

Expected returns are what we expect to earn over the next year if we choose to invest today. The expected return is not plucked out of thin air, but is modeled by our hero: The Econometrician. In scholastic seminars, he explains how to interpret expected bond returns, and in client emails, the...

Reduced provisions for loan losses in 1988 boosted bank profits in the Fifth District and nationwide. Profit ratios also may have been influenced somewhat by subsidiary banks' payment of management fees to their holding companies