Fed in Print might experience downtime on Thursday, May 22, due to scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Working Paper

Term Structure Modeling with Supply Factors and the Federal Reserve's Large Scale Asset Purchase Programs


Abstract: This paper estimates an arbitrage-free term structure model with both observable yield factors and Treasury and Agency MBS supply factors, and uses it to evaluate the term premium effects of the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase programs. Our estimates show that the first and the second large-scale asset purchase programs and the maturity extension program jointly reduced the 10-year Treasury yield by about 100 basis points.

JEL Classification: G1; E4; C5;

Access Documents

File(s): File format is application/pdf http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2014/201407/201407pap.pdf
Description: Full text

Authors

Bibliographic Information

Provider: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Part of Series: Finance and Economics Discussion Series

Publication Date: 2014-03-24

Number: 2014-07

Note: This paper is a revised version of FEDS Working Paper 2012-37