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rates in Turkey for the inflation-targeting period. Empirical evidence suggests that (i) all interest rates respond to a …
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This study attempts to identify uncertainty in the long-term rate of interest based on the controversial interest rate …-form GARCH-in-mean model assigned to six globally leading financial markets. The obtained results support Keynes's theory - the … macroeconomic variables without interest uncertainty are thus seriously incomplete. …
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I provide evidence that risks in macroeconomic fundamentals contain valuable information about bond risk premia. I … extract factors from a set of quantile-based risk measures estimated for US macroeconomic variables and document that they … expectations of real economic activity, uncertainty about real GDP growth, and downside and upside risks in housing starts and the …
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for macroeconomic outcomes? Using an affine term structure model, we shed new light on these questions. Estimation is … subject to restrictions addressing an estimation bias in expected interest rates obtained by previous studies. Highfrequency … the transmission mechanism and broadly consistent with macroeconomic theory. …
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Central banks have usually employed short-term rates as the main instrument of monetary policy. In the last decades, however, forward guidance has also become a central tool for monetary policy. In an innovative way this paper combines two sources of extraneous information - high frequency...
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This paper provides an empirical assessment of the power of forward guidance at different horizons, shedding new light on the strength of the "forward guidance puzzle". Our identification strategy allows us to disentangle the change in future interest rates stemming from deviations from the...
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, or "uncertainty shocks", are an important model ingredient. First, they account for countercyclical movements in risk … changes in both risk-premia and expected future real rates, uncertainty shocks account for about 1/2 of the variance of long …
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margins, but credit and interest rate risk increase. Portfolio rebalancing implies relatively more lending, also compared to … an earlier rate cut within positive territory, and risk-taking reduces regulatory capital cushions and liquidity. …
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Using a representative consumer survey in the U.S., we elicit beliefs about the economic impact of climate change. Respondents perceive a high probability of costly, rare disasters in the near future due to climate change, but not much of an impact on GDP growth. Salience of rare disasters...
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