Term structure of interest rates with short-run and long-run risks

Autor: Hao Zhou, Olesya V. Grishchenko, Zhaogang Song
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Finance and Data Science. 8:255-295
ISSN: 2405-9188
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfds.2022.09.001
Popis: Bond returns are time-varying and predictable. What economic forces drive this variation? To answer this long-standing question, we propose a consumption-based model with recursive preferences, long-run risks, and inflation non-neutrality. Our model offers two important insights. First, our model matches well the post-1990 nominal upward-sloping U.S. Treasury yield curve. Second, consistent with our model's implication, variance risk premium based on the U.S. interest rate derivatives data emerges as a strong predictor for short-horizon Treasury excess returns, above and beyond the predictive power of other popular factors. In the model equilibrium, the variance risk premium is related to the short-run risks in the economy, while standard forward-rate-based factors are associated with long-run risks in the economy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE