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- Title
Financial integration and the term structure of interest rates.
- Authors
Traczyk, Adam
- Abstract
This paper presents a model of the term structure for an open economy. A flexible VAR approach is used to model macroeconomic growth, inflation, short rate and the yield spread. Then the term structure is built given restrictions implied by the no-arbitrage condition. Contrary to previously proposed macrofinance models of the term structure, the model suggested here explicitly accounts for financial and real spillovers between economies. As documented in the paper, foreign macroeconomic factors contain a lot of information about the domestic term structure of yields. Put to data, the model explains the dynamics of yields very well. It provides better out-of-sample forecasting results than the closed economy models. Openness induces more variability in the estimated term premia of yields with shorter maturities.
- Subjects
INFORMATION economy; VALUE-added resellers; MACROECONOMICS -- Government policy; PRICE inflation; DIFFERENCES; ARBITRAGE pricing theory
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2013, Vol 45, Issue 3, p1267
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-012-0652-7