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For over two centuries, the municipal bond market has been a source of systemic risk, which returned early in the COVID … difficult to borrow at all. Indeed, just before the Fed announced its unprecedented intervention into the municipal (muni) bond … of the MLF could undermine the efficiency of the bond market if the facility lasts too long and could induce moral hazard …
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We study the yields in the German treasury bills market. We take a detailed look at the yield banks require to buy treasury bills in the primary market, and we also examine the yield households and nonbank firms demand to buy these bills in the secondary market. We use data from real world...
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Central-bank collateral policy governs the convertibility of assets into central-bank money provided directly by the central bank. Focusing on government bonds, we develop clean identification of variation in such convertibility by exploiting differential treatment of same-country government...
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This paper examines whether the ECB's Quantitative Easing (QE) policy is causing government bond prices to deviate from … series introduced by Phillips et al. (2015). We extend this methodology and apply it to government bond prices. The results … show that the QE policy substantially inflated government bond prices in Euro Area countries to such an extent that bond …
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We estimate the response of euro area sovereign bond yields to purchase operations under the ECB's Public Sector …, led to a temporary 7 basis-point decline in sovereign bond yields on the day of purchase. This impact estimate is well …
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This paper econometrically models the dynamics of long-term Chinese government bond (CGB) yields based on key … index, the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan, and the balance sheet of the People's Bank of China (PBOC). The findings show … long-term government bond yields through the short-term interest rate. The paper's findings evince that Keynes's claim …
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show the merit of our approach along the following dimensions: (i) interpretable bond dynamics; (ii) accurate short end …
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We show that uncertainty of monetary policy (MPU) commands a risk premium in the US Treasury bond market. Using the … significantly and positively future monthly Treasury bond excess returns. This forecastability remains significant controlling for … standard bond risk premium predictors based on yield curve and macroeconomic fundamentals. The predictive power of MPU is not …
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We build a novel macro-finance model that combines a semi-structural macroeconomic module with arbitrage-free yield-curve dynamics. We estimate it for the United States and the euro area using a Bayesian approach and jointly infer the real equilibrium interest rate (r*), trend inflation (π*),...
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We study drift and cyclical components in U.S. Treasury bonds. We find that bond yields are drifting because they … productivity trends, plus long-term inflation expectations, leads to cyclical deviations of bond prices from their drift that … predict bond returns in- and out-of-sample. These bond cycles can originate from term premia or temporary deviations from …
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