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Using panel data models, we analyze the flypaper effects-whether intergovernmental fiscal transfers or states' own income determine expenditure commitments - on ecological fiscal spending in India. The econometric results show that the unconditional fiscal transfers, rather than the states' own...
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Using market prices of inflation-linked bonds and nominal bonds issued by the French Treasury, both the real and … evidence on the benefits of hedging portfolios against real interest rate and inflation risks rather than against nominal …
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structure reflects changing expectations of future yields and inflation. This analysis shows that the presence of time … less than five years. By contrast, variations in inflation expected over the next two to three years are very accurately … term structures closely track changing expectations regarding future nominal and real yields but not future inflation …
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This paper examines the information content of inflation forecasts derived using index-linked and conventional bonds …. The paper finds that the derived inflation term structure (ITS) gives a somewhat better indication of the bond market …'s inflation expectation than can be derived using either the nominal term structure or a variant employing strong assumptions …
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This paper evaluates the properties of nominal interest rates as indicators of inflation expectations. Are they … sets. The results show that the interest rate level is a reasonably good indicator of the level of inflation expectations …. However, changes in interest rates are poor indicators of changes in inflation expectations …
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Inflation expectation is acknowledged to be an important indicator for policy makers and financial investors. To … capture a more accurate real-time estimate of inflation expectation on the basis of financial markets, we propose an arbitrage …-free model across different countries in a multi-maturity term structure, where we first estimate inflation expectation by …
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We study risk premium in US Treasury bonds. We decompose Treasury yields into inflation expectations and maturity …-specific interest rate cycles, which we define as variation in yields orthogonal to expected inflation. The short-maturity cycle … captures the real short-rate dynamics. Jointly with expected inflation, it comprises the expectations hypothesis (EH) term in …
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This paper provides a toolkit for extracting accurate information about inflation expectations using inflation …-linked bonds. First, we show how to estimate term structures of zero-coupon real rates and break-even inflation rates (BEIRs) in … the euro area. This improves the analysis of developments in inflation expectations by providing constant maturity …
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consider the implications of a risk premium that arises from endogenous market segmentation driven by variable inflation rates …. In the absence of autocorrelation in inflation, the risk premium is constant. If inflation is correlated, however, the …
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consider the implications of a risk premium that arises from endogenous market segmentation driven by variable inflation rates …. In the absence of autocorrelation in inflation, the risk premium is constant. If inflation is correlated, however, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288797