Download or read book Yield Spread as a Leading Indicator of Real Economic Activity written by K. Kanagasabapathy and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing evidence that the yield spread could serve as a leading indicator of real economic activity. This paper is an attempt to test this hypothesis for the Indian economy by relating movements in the yield spread in the government securities market to movements in the index of industrial production. The results show that yield spread could, inter alia, be considered as a leading indicator of industrial activity in India.
Download or read book The Yield Curve and Real Activity written by Zuliu Hu and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial press frequently suggest that the shape of yield curve reflects information about the prospects of the economy. This paper attempts to formalize the link between the yield curve and the real economic activity. A closed-form formula for the term structure of interest rates is derived. It is shown that the term structure embodies the market’s expectation about changes in the macroeconomic fundamental--the growth in real aggregate output of the economy. The paper then documents the use of bond market data for predicting GDP growth in the G-7 industrial countries. The results suggest that a simple measure of the slope of the yield curve, namely the yield spread, serves as a good predictor of future economic growth. The out-of-sample forecasting performance of the yield spread compares favorably with that of the alternative stock price-based model and a univariate time series (ARMA) model. One practical implication is that it may be useful to add some measure of the term structure to the list of
Download or read book The Yield Spread and Real Economic Activity written by K. M. Hawtrey and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yield Spreads Real Economic Activity written by Alfred V. Guender and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Among Yield Curve and Real Economic Activity written by Evelyn Munoz-Salas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper surveys whether there exists for Costa Rica any relationship between the expected growth of real economic activity and the slope of the yield curve or spread. Using monthly data from January 1989 to January 1996, the analysis indicates the existence of a clear relationship among the variables probably as a result of financial system reforms that permitted a major participation of market forces in yields determination.
Download or read book Handbook of Monetary Policy written by Jack Rabin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explains the development and implementation of monetary policy. It examines theories and issues related to the preservation of economic activity and explores why the preservation of economic stability is a principal goal of public policy.
Download or read book A Re examination of the Predictability of Economic Activity Using the Yield Spread written by James Douglas Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper revisits the yield spread's usefulness for predicting future real GDP growth. We show that the contribution of the spread can be decomposed into the effect of expected future changes in short rates and the effect of the term premium. We find that both factors are relevant for predicting real GDP growth but the respective contributions differ. We investigate whether the cyclical behavior of interest rate volatility could account for either or both effects. We find that while volatility displays important correlations with both the term structure of interest rates and GDP, it does not appear to account for the yield spread's usefulness for predicting GDP growth
Download or read book An Explanation of Spread s Ability to Predict Economic Activity written by Anastasios Evgenidis and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contributes to the relevant literature by providing an explanation on the reason and the economic conditions under which the spread proves to be such a powerful predictor of economic activity. For over two decades numerous studies have provided evidence on the predictive ability of the yield spread for real economic growth. While all this large literature has focused on how well the spread helps towards predicting real activity, none of these studies has given an answer on why the spread predicts. This study deals with this issue by attempting to find an answer on the reason and the economic conditions under which the spread proves to be such a powerful predictor of economic activity. We examine whether the explanation of spread's predictive ability lies behind interest rate volatility, supposing that the economy oscillates between high and low volatility regimes. For this reason we nest GARCH models into Markov regime switching models.When we assume that the economy simply oscillates between different regimes, interest rate volatility does not explain the spread's predictive ability. However, we obtain a very interesting result when we augment the conditional variance with a level effects term. This ensures that in an environment with high levels of interest rates - in which the rational agents expect the economy to slow down - there is a greater possibility for the economy to switch to a high volatility regime. Under these economic conditions, interest rate volatility appears to be the reason of spread's predictive power from one up to three years.
Download or read book The Cyclical Behavior of the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Reuben A. Kessel and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Does the Yield Curve Predict Economic Activity written by Frank Smets and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Issues in Economics and Finance written by Bandi Kamaiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses wide topics related to current issues in economic growth and development, international trade, macroeconomic and financial stability, inflation, monetary policy, banking, productivity, agriculture and food security. It is a collection of seventeen research papers selected based on their quality in terms of contemporary topic, newness in the methodology, and themes. All selected papers have followed an empirical approach to address research issues, and are segregated in five parts. Part one covers papers related to fiscal and price stability, monetary policy and economic growth. The second part contains works related to financial integration, capital market volatility and macroeconomic stability. Third part deals with issues related to international trade and economic growth. Part four covers topics related to productivity and firm performance. The final part discusses issues related to agriculture and food security. The book would be of interest to researchers, academicians as a ready reference on current issues in economics and finance.
Download or read book Yield Curve Dynamics written by Anne Lundgaard Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest rates vary with time horizons. This relationship, known as the term structure of interest rates or the yield curve, contains information about market expectations on future interest rates, inflation, and economic activity; risk attitudes; and recession probabilities. Understanding yield curve dynamics is thus crucial for monetary policy makers and investors to respond appropriately to fluctuations in financial markets and the economy. This thesis addresses key challenges for modeling and interpreting yield curve dynamics. Through three self-contained chapters, I present new methodologies and empirical insights related to the time-series properties of bond yields, risk factors in bond markets, and implications for monetary policy.
Download or read book The Slope of the Yield Curve and Real Economic Activity written by D. A. Peel and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Economic Indicators written by C. James Hueng and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymakers and business practitioners are eager to gain access to reliable information on the state of the economy for timely decision making. More so now than ever. Traditional economic indicators have been criticized for delayed reporting, out-of-date methodology, and neglecting some aspects of the economy. Recent advances in economic theory, econometrics, and information technology have fueled research in building broader, more accurate, and higher-frequency economic indicators. This volume contains contributions from a group of prominent economists who address alternative economic indicators, including indicators in the financial market, indicators for business cycles, and indicators of economic uncertainty.
Download or read book The Predictive Power of the Yield Curve written by Hüseyin Kaya and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yield curve has long been a subject of interest to macroeconomists and financial economists since the term structure of interest rates carries important information about expectations, monetary policy and market risk factors. As expectation hypothesis suggest; it is possible to extract expectations of economic actors about future economic activity by torturing the term structure of interest rates. Recent economic and financial crisis has manifested the importance of the indicators that correctly predict the future path of economy, and hence has increased the value of studies on the yield curve. In this study, we provide a literature survey of predictive power of the yield curve on inflation and reel economic activity and, of policy effects on the predictive power of the yield curve. We also investigate whether the yield spreads and reel economic activity has long-run relationship in Turkey. Economists, policymakers and market analyst who wish to investigate whether the term structure of interest rates contains significant information about the future economic activity can utilize this study.
Download or read book The Yield Curve As A Forecasting Tool written by Melvin Khomo and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the ability of the yield curve to predict recessions in South Africa, and compares its predictive power with other commonly used variables that include the growth rate in real money supply, changes in stock prices and the index of leading economic indicators. The study also makes an attempt to find out if monetary policy explains the yield spread s predictive power with regards to future economic activity. Regarding methodology, the standard probit model proposed by Estrella and Mishkin (1996) that directly estimates the probability of the economy going into recession is used. Results from this model are compared with a modified probit model suggested by Dueker (1997) that includes a lagged dependent variable. Results presented in the paper provide further evidence that the yield curve, as represented by the yield spread between 3-month and 10-year government paper, can be used to estimate the likelihood of recessions in South Africa. The yield spread can produce recession forecasts up to 18 months, although it s best predictive power is seen at two quarters.
Download or read book Predicting Output Using the Entire Yield Curve written by Azamat Abdymomunov and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many studies find that yields for government bonds predict real economic activity. Most of these studies use the yield spread, defined as the difference between two yields of specific maturities, to predict output. In this paper, I propose a different approach that makes use of information contained in the entire term structure of U.S. Treasury yields to predict U.S. real GDP growth. My proposed dynamic yield curve model produces better out-of-sample forecasts of real GDP than those produced by the traditional yield spread model. The main source of this improvement is in the dynamic approach to constructing forecasts versus the direct forecasting approach used in the traditional yield spread model. Although the predictive power of the yield curve for output is concentrated in the yield spread, there is also a gain from using information in the curvature factor for the real GDP growth prediction.
