Changes in the Relationship Between the Long-Term Interest Rate and its Determinants /

This paper assesses the relative importance of alternative explanations for the rise in long-term interest rates in the United States from October 1993 to April 1994. Standard econometric models of the term structure are shown to have a structural break in the early 1980s. An important reason for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, William
Other Authors: Prasad, Eswar
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/124
Online Access:Full text available on IMF