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Using a unique data set of individual professional forecasts, we document disagreement about the future path of monetary policy, particularly at longer horizons. The stark differences in short rate forecasts imply strong disagreement about the risk-return trade-off of longer-term bonds....
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rates via the expectations hypothesis (EH). While the EH has been systematically rejected in the data, existing work … evaluating the EH generally assumes either full-information rational expectations or stationarity of beliefs, or both. As such … the EH. We introduce a model of expectations formation which features time-varying means and accommodates deviations from …
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Foster and Hart (2009) introduce an objective measure of the riskiness of an asset that implies a bound on how much of one's wealth is ‘safe' to invest in the asset while (a.s.) guaranteeing no-bankruptcy. In this study, we translate the Foster-Hart measure from static and abstract gambles to...
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expectations accommodate perceived structural change and learning effects, are consistent with a lower bound on nominal interest …
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To study inflation expectations and associated risk premia in emerging bond markets, this paper provides estimates for … prices that are only weakly correlated, the results indicate that long-term inflation expectations in Mexico are well …
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Expectations of risky bond payments are unobservable and recovery rates for sovereigns are hard to estimate because … is used to derive expected payments, dependent on idiosyncratic risk and unrelated to interest rates. The expectations …
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I show that investor confidence (size of ambiguity) about future consumption growth is driven by past consumption growth and inflation. The impact of inflation on confidence has moved considerably over time and switched on average from negative to positive in 1997. Motivated by this evidence, I...
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This paper studies how foreign investors' concerns about model misspecification affect sovereign bond spreads. We develop a general equilibrium model of sovereign debt with endogenous default wherein investors fear that the probability model of the underlying state of the borrowing economy is...
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be cautions in interpreting RNDs as representing the true expectations of market participants. The method used in this …
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