Working Paper
Bond positions, expectations, and the yield curve
Abstract: This paper implements a structural model of the yield curve with data on nominal positions and survey forecasts. Bond prices are characterized in terms of investors' current portfolio holdings as well as their subjective beliefs about future bond payoffs. Risk premia measured by an econometrician vary because of changes in investors' subjective risk premia that are identified from portfolios and subjective beliefs but also because subjective beliefs differ from those of the econometrician. The main result is that investors' systematic forecast errors are an important source of business cycle variation in measured risk premia. By contrast, subjective risk premia move less and more slowly over time.
Keywords: Bonds - Prices; Consumer behavior;
Access Documents
File(s): File format is application/pdf https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/research/publications/wp/2008/wp0802.pdf
Authors
Bibliographic Information
Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Part of Series: FRB Atlanta Working Paper
Publication Date: 2008
Number: 2008-02