We provide evidence on the effect of the slope of the yield curve on economic activity through bank lending. Using detailed data on banks' lending activities coupled with term premium shocks identified using high-frequency event study or instrumental variables, we show that a steeper yield curve...

In this paper we decompose Turkish Lira interest rates into expected short rate and term premium components, using two well-established methods. Then we focus on the impact of the share of foreign investors on bond yields by instrumenting that share with VIX and Merry Lynch option volatility...

This paper provides a comparative evaluation of the behaviour of long-term sovereign yieldsin Czechia, Hungary and Poland from 2001 to 2019. An affine term structure model de-veloped by Adrian, Crump and Moench (2013) is used as an empirical framework for thedecomposition of the bond yields into...