[PDF] The Term Structure Of Interest Rates Real Activity And Inflation eBook

Author : Sylvester C. W. Eijffinger
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Release : 1999
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This paper examines the implications of the expectations theory of the term structure for the implementation of inflation targeting. We show that the term structure weakens the transmission of short-term interest rates to ultimate policy objectives. Therefore, short term interest rates in the central bank's forward looking monetary policy rule need to respond more strongly to the output gap and deviations of inflation from its target. Thus, in general the term structure implies a higher degree of policy activism. Next, we show that both the sensitivity of the term spread to economic fundamentals, and the extent to which the spread predicts future output, are increasing in the duration of the long bond and the degree of structural output persistence. If the central bank becomes relatively less concerned about inflation stabilization the term spread becomes less sensitive to fundamentals, and the spread will be less successful in predicting real economic activity.

Author : Andrew Ang
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Economic forecasting
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Changes in nominal interest rates must be due to either movements in real interest rates, expected inflation, or the inflation risk premium. We develop a term structure model with regime switches, time-varying prices of risk, and inflation to identify these components of the nominal yield curve. We find that the unconditional real rate curve in the U.S. is fairly flat around 1.3%. In one real rate regime, the real term structure is steeply downward sloping. An inflation risk premium that increases with maturity fully accounts for the generally upward sloping nominal term structure.

Author : Fabio Canova
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Release : 2014
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This paper analyzes the empirical interdependencies among asset returns, real activity and inflation from a multi-country and international point of view. We find that nominal stock returns are significantly related to inflation only in the U.S, that the U.S. term structure of interest rates predicts both domestic and foreign inflation rates while foreign term structures do not have this predictive power, and that innovations in inflation and exchange rates induce insignificant responses of real and financial variables. An interpretation of the dynamics and some policy implications of the results are provided.