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Macroeconomic implications of changes in the term premium


Abstract: Linearized New Keynesian models and empirical no-arbitrage macro-finance models offer little insight regarding the implications of changes in bond term premiums for economic activity. This paper investigates these implications using both a structural model and a reduced-form framework. The authors show that there is no structural relationship running from the term premium to economic activity, but a reduced-form empirical analysis does suggest that a decline in the term premium has typically been associated with stimulus to real economic activity, which contradicts earlier results in the literature.

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Finance;

Status: Published in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis : Frontiers in Monetary Policy Research

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: Review

Publication Date: 2007

Volume: 89

Issue: Jul

Pages: 241-270