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cycles and to predicting recessions. Applying an effective algorithm, I classify the Treasury yield curve into distinct … recessions, the median-short yield spread trumps the long-short spread for horizons up to 17 months ahead and the yield curve … shape is nearly impressive as the median-short spread. Overall, the yield curve shape is an informative but more succinct …
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coherent inference procedure that detects a jump in the yield spread only if at least one of the two underlying bonds displays … to overestimate the number of jumps in yield spreads and puts the coherence of test results at risk. We formalize the …
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This paper provides cross-country analysis of local bond market term premia in emerging countries. In order to investigate the role of domestic and global factors in the determination of compensation demanded by investors for their medium and long term fixed income investments, term premia is...
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Does Indian sovereign yield volatility reflect economic fundamentals, or whether it is a self-generated force flowing … dynamics and measures the persistence of shocks to the sovereign bond yield volatility in India from 1 January 2016, to 18 May … yield volatility. For a positive γ, the results suggest the possibility of a "leverage effect" that is markedly different …
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This paper seeks to analyse the impact of government debt and other macroeconomic variables on the long term bond yield …-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique to estimate the determinants of the long-term bond yield. Our results show that the short …-term interest rate is the major determinant of the long term yield in both the short-run and long-run. Government debt and the US …
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The aim of this article is to investigate the consequences of oil price changes for the economy of the US and the euro area. Oil price transmission channel is assessed using Granger causalities and structural vector autoregressive (VAR) specifications (applying the Cholesky factorization and the...
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This paper analyzes whether there exists a relationship between the slope of the yield curve and future economic …. For this purpose, we estimate a threshold model in which the relationship between the yield spread and economic activity … certain threshold. The main results indicate that the slope of the yield curve seems to anticipate the behavior of economic …
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This study provides a dynamic analysis of the lead-lag relationship between sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS) and bond spreads of the highly indebted southern European countries, considering an extensive time sample from the period before the global financial crisis to the latest developments...
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factors influence their yield. The goal of the research is to investigate the relationship between macroeconomic factors and … the yield of government bonds. We use regression models on a dataset of 22 countries with post-industrial economics for … between the yield of government bonds and gold. Moreover, we indicate a positive association between the yield of government …
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Using option prices, a new method for estimating the term structure of expected stock returns (equity curve) is proposed. We analyse how the equity curve relates to future stock returns and obtain three main results. First, a higher level of the equity curve is associated with higher future...
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