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...

This study proposes and estimates state‐space models with endogenous Markov regime‐switching parameters. It complements regime‐switching dynamic linear models by allowing the discrete regime to be jointly determined with observed or unobserved continuous state variables. The estimation...