A neutral interest rate is a key indicator of the monetary policy stance. This study estimates South Korea’s neutral interest rates and their determinants. Based on the results, we investigate the prior monetary policy patterns of the Bank of Korea (BOK) and evaluate its stance. We adopted a...

We investigate how conventional and unconventional monetary policies affect the dynamics of the yield curve by assessing the performance of individual yield curve models and their mixtures. Out-of-sample forecasts for U.S. bond yields show that the arbitrage-free Nelson-Siegel model and its...