IMF Working Papers

Modelling the Yield Curve

By Mark P. Taylor

December 1, 1991

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Mark P. Taylor Modelling the Yield Curve, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

We test and estimate a variety of alternative models of the yield curve, using weekly, high-quality U.K. data. We extend the Campbell-Shiller technique to the overlapping data case and apply it to reject the pure expectations hypothesis under rational expectations. We also find that risk measures, in the form of conditional interest rate volatility, are unable to explain the term premium. A simple, market segmentation approach is, however, moderately successful in explaining the term premium.

Subject: Bonds, Econometric analysis, Financial institutions, Financial services, Short term interest rates, Treasury bills and bonds, Vector autoregression, Yield curve

Keywords: Bond maturity, Bonds, Expectations, Interest rate data, Interest rates, Market segmentation, Moving average, N-period bond, Redemption value, Redemption yield, Risk, Short interest, Short term interest rates, Taylor series, T-Bill rate, Term premia, Term structure, Treasury bills and bonds, U.K. yield curve, Vector autoregression, WP, Yield curve, Yield gap

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    38

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/134

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1341991

  • ISBN:

    9781451931457

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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