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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Glavni avtor: Lee, William
Drugi avtorji: Prasad, Eswar
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/124
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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Izvleček: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 this change in the traditional term structure relationship appears to be an increase in the responsiveness of long-term rates to changes in the stance of monetary policy. Augmented term structure models that explicitly incorporate the role of monetary policy in determining the level of long-term rates are then constructed. These models track variations in the long-term rate better than traditional term structure models, but still leave a significant fraction of the recent increase in long-term rates unexplained.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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