Macro expectations, aggregate uncertainty, and expected term premia


Dick, Christian D. ; Schmeling, Maik ; Schrimpf, Andreas


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URL: http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/3017
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-30178
Document Type: Working paper
Year of publication: 2010
The title of a journal, publication series: None
Publication language: English
Institution: Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series: Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject: 330 Economics
Classification: JEL: E43 E44 G12 ,
Subject headings (SWD): USA , Zinsstrukturtheorie , Zins , Risikoprämie , Finanzanalyst , Mikroökonomie , Konjunktur
Keywords (English): Bond yields , expectations hypothesis , time-varying risk premia , term premia , aggregate uncertainty
Abstract: Based on individual expectations from the Survey of Professional Forecasters, we construct a real-time proxy for expected term premium changes on long-term bonds. We empirically investigate the relation of these bond term premium expectations with expectations about key macroeconomic variables as well as aggregate macroeconomic uncertainty at the level of individual forecasters. We find that expected term premia are (i) time-varying and reasonably persistent, (ii) strongly related to expectations about future output growth, and (iii) positively affected by uncertainty about future output growth and inflation rates. Expectations about real macroeconomic variables seem to matter more than expectations about nominal factors. Additional findings on term structure factors suggest that the level and slope factor capture information related to uncertainty about real and nominal macroeconomic prospects, and that curvature is related to subjective term premium expectations themselves. Finally, an aggregate measure of forecasters' term premium expectations has predictive power for bond excess returns over horizons of up to one year.
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