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indicator than the spreads in studying the term structure. Key words: Business cycle, recession forecast, U.S. Treasury yield …
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Following Estrella and Hardouvelis (1991) and Estrella and Mishkin (1995a, b), we study the ability of the term structure to predict recessions in eight countries. The results are four-fold. First, the yield curve predicts future recessions in all countries. Second, term spreads forecast...
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The aim of this paper is to study how macroeconomic impulses can affect the term structure during the Great Moderation. As novelty in the research strategy, we create a term-structure using three latent factors of the yield curve. A Nelson-Siegel Model is implemented to estimate the latent...
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The paper extends previous work on the information in the term structure about future real economic growth. For the U.S. and Germany, and to a lesser extent for the U.K., we find evidence that the long end of the term structure has information about future growth of industrial production beyond...
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This paper studies the informational content of the slope of the yield curve as a predictor of recessions in the euro area. In particular, the historical predictive power of ten yield spreads, for different segments of the yield curve, is tested using a probit model. The yield spread between the...
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the period 2003Q1-2019Q4 with a special emphasis on credit conditions. With the help of this model, monetary policy … determining the relative weight of these states over time. We show that shocks to the credit spread and shocks to credit standards … directly lead to a reduction of real GDP growth, whereas shocks to the quantity of credit are slightly less important in …
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