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Author: Johura Begum Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Yield curve is very prominent in the economics and finance literature to analyze the behavior of households and investors towards bonds markets. In this paper we explore and test the Expectations Hypothesis (EH) of the term structure for a number of international bond markets. We use data at the short and long end maturities for the Treasury bill rate and the Government of Canada bond rate. The sample includes monthly yields for maturities ranging from 1, 3, 5-month treasury bills and 1, 5, 10 and more years for Government of Canada bonds, USA bonds, UK bonds and France bonds. We use the Engle-Granger cointegration test and OLS to estimate the spread between short and long term interest rates, including tests for serial correlation in residuals, and to test the validity of the EH. The EH is rejected in all cases.
Author: Johura Begum Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Yield curve is very prominent in the economics and finance literature to analyze the behavior of households and investors towards bonds markets. In this paper we explore and test the Expectations Hypothesis (EH) of the term structure for a number of international bond markets. We use data at the short and long end maturities for the Treasury bill rate and the Government of Canada bond rate. The sample includes monthly yields for maturities ranging from 1, 3, 5-month treasury bills and 1, 5, 10 and more years for Government of Canada bonds, USA bonds, UK bonds and France bonds. We use the Engle-Granger cointegration test and OLS to estimate the spread between short and long term interest rates, including tests for serial correlation in residuals, and to test the validity of the EH. The EH is rejected in all cases.
Author: Kenneth A. Froot Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Survey data on interest rate expectations are used to separate the forward interest rate into an expected future rate and a term premium. These components are used to test separately two competing alternative hypotheses in tests of the term structure: that the expectations hypothesis does not hold, and that expected future long rates over- or underreact. to changes in short rates. While the spread consistently fails to predict future interest rate changes, we find that the nature of this failure is different, for short versus long maturities. For short maturities, expected future rates are rational forecasts. The poor predictions of the spread can therefore be attributed to variation in term premia. For longer-term bonds, however, we are unable to reject the expectations theory, in that a steeper yield curve reflects a one-for-one increase in expected future long rates. Here the perverse predictions of the spread reflect investors' failure to raise sufficiently their expectations of future long rates when the short rate rises. We confirm earlier findings that bond rates underreact to short rate changes, but now this result cannot be attributed to the term premium
Author: Burton Gordon Malkiel Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400879787 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 294
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Can expectations alone explain the yield differentials among bonds of different maturities? To what extend do attitudes toward risk and transactions costs influence the behavior of bond investors? Is it possible for the Federal Reserve to "twist" the interest-rate structure in accordance with its policy objectives? These are among the questions treated. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: María Isabel Martínez Serna Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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The disparate evidence obtained by the empirical literature of the expectations theory of the term structure of interest rates has been interpreted in different ways. One explanation stems from the findings of Mankiw and Miron (1986) who observed that the term spread in the U.S. had substantial predictive power in line with the expectations theory before the founding of the Federal Reserve in 1914. Afterwards, the Fed's commitment to stabilising interest rates caused changes in short rates to become unpredictable on the basis of the spread. Consequently, these authors argue that monetary policy regime, and the extent to which it involves smoothing interest rates, determines the performance of the expectations theory.The argument of Mankiw and Miron has been extended and formalised by McCallum (1994), who develops a model of the interaction between the expectations theory, a time-varying autoregressive term premium, and an interest rate smoothing monetary policy combined with the use of the spread as an indicator. Kugler (1994) and Boero and Torricelli (1998) derive an exact solution to the McCallum model. Nevertheless, both of them limit their theoretical contribution to the case of one-period short rate. These two articles, together with Hsu and Kugler (1997), constitute the empirical applications of the model. All three conclude that the model is able to explain the results from standard tests of the expectations theory. The present research is intended to complete the existing theoretical and empirical literature about the McCallum model. Thus, we derive a generalisation of the exact solution of the model for any pair of maturities and, on the basis of the derived solution, we test the McCallum model for a wider range of maturities (all the above cited studies only use 1-month and 3-month interest rates) and for the Spanish term structure, to which the model has not yet been applied.
Author: Ludwig B. Chincarini Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 19
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One of the most popular theories of the term structure of interest rates is the pure expectations theory. In its purest form it postulates that long term interest rates are a reflection of the market's perception of future short term rates. Almost all of the tests of the pure form of this theory with financial markets of various countries have resulted in a rejection of the theory. A standard approach of most of the literature is to linearize the equations associated with the theory and then estimate a linear regression to determine if the spread is indeed a predictor of future short rates. While this approximation is valid for testing the expectations hypothesis when the spread is between long and short duration instruments, researchers should be careful applying this technique to money market spreads. In particular, this approximation will not be valid for very flat term structures, which is usually the case for bills with less than twelve months to maturity. This paper uses simulations to show how erroneous conclusions can be drawn by using this approximation in the money market and re-examines the pure expectations theory for the money markets of various countries using the DOLS approach to estimating series that are cointegrated. The conclusions are different from other studies on this subject and are particularily supportive of the expectation's hypothesis. In fact, while the theory is sometimes rejected (accepted) when using approximations, it is accepted (rejected) using the exact formulas.
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