Dewachter, Hans; Iania, Leonardo - 2010
-sectional fit of the yield curve. Second, we find that financial shocks, either in the form of liquidity or risk premium shocks …, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED … spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor is extracted by imposing a single factor structure on the one …