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The cyclical variation behavior of the mortgage spread has motivated some studies to investigate its relationship to economic activity. Indeed, recent empirical findings indicate that the mortgage spread is a determinant/predictor of economic activity. We define the mortgage spread as the...
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The primary aim of this presentation is to introduce my new book "Low Latency Interest Rate Markets" and expose the reader to the theory and practice of interest rate markets. Interest rate markets exist to support government, corporate and project finance, however the financing of large-scale...
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Abstract Negative interest rates policies (NIRP), usually depicted in economic textbooks as an impossibility due to the prospect of infinite demand for money, are now a reality in several countries due to different reasons. But while the ZLB has been surpassed when it comes to Central Banks, it...
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In September the Russian central bank has raised its key interest rate, for the first time since 2014, by 0.25 p.p. to 7.5% p.a. in response to increasing risks of higher inflation, including the Russian ruble devaluation (induced by new sanctions against Russia and by capital outflows from...
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In recent years the issue of the role of asset prices in monetary setting has become increasingly topical since booms and busts in asset market are associated with the fluctuations in overall economic activity through its impacts on aggregate spending. In this study, we use Smooth Transition...
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This paper evaluates the properties of nominal interest rates as indicators of inflation expectations. Are they unbiased? How precise are they? To arrive at robust results, a range of different methods are applied on several S and UK data sets. The results show that the interest rate level is a...
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Long-term interest rates are at their lowest levels in over a generation and are likely to edge up in the near future. Many analysts are also concerned about the potential impact of inflation on interest rates. In recent Congressional testimony, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan stated...
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Long-term bond yields contain a risk-premium, an important part of which is compensation for inflation risks. The substantial increase in the Fed funds rate in the mid-2000s did not raise long-term US Treasury yields due to the reduction in the term premium (so-called Greenspan conundrum) which...
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Concerns were raised beginning in the 1980s about the possible detrimental effects of high positive real interest rates under financial liberalization. Using a sample of 28 countries that underwent financial liberalization since the 1970s, the paper examines the evidence about the emergence of...
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This paper studies optimal monetary policy in a model with credit frictions and money demand. We show that augmenting a standard New-Keynesian model with money demand and financial frictions generates a mechanism that, in equilibrium, gives rise to optimal negative nominal interest rates. In...
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