This paper assesses the effect of expected inflation and inflation risk on interest rates within the Fisher hypothesis framework. Autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic models are used to estimate the conditional variability of inflation as a proxy for risk. With the U.K. quarterly data from...

This paper analyzes how the different types of inflation uncertainty affect a set of interest rate spreads for the UK. Three types of inflation uncertainty — structural uncertainty, impulse uncertainty, and steady-state inflation uncertainty — are defined and derived by using a time-varying...

This paper puts forward the thesis that neither the changes in FED Funds anticipated target rate nor the FED Funds unanticipated target changes can be expected to affect the financial indicators of all emerging markets. The paper supports this thesis using the original framework developed by...