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Term Premia (term + premia)

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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting100%

Selected Abstracts

Term premia and the maturity composition of the Federal debt: new evidence from the term structure of interest rates

JOURNAL OF FORECASTING, Issue 7 2001
Basma Bekdache
Abstract This paper models bond term premia empirically in terms of the maturity composition of the federal debt and other observable economic variables in a time-varying framework with potential regime shifts. We present regression and out-of sample forecasting results demonstrating that information on the age composition of the Federal debt is useful for forecasting term premia. We show that the multiprocess mixture model, a multi-state time-varying parameter model, outperforms the commonly used GARCH model in out-of-sample forecasts of term premia. The results underscore the importance of modelling term premia, as a function of economic variables rather than just as a function of asset covariances as in the conditional heteroscedasticity models. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

A Term Structure Decomposition of the Australian Yield Curve,

THE ECONOMIC RECORD, Issue 271 2009
RICHARD FINLAY
We use data on coupon-bearing Australian Government bonds and Overnight Indexed Swap (OIS) rates to estimate risk-free zero-coupon yield and forward curves for Australia from 1992 to 2007. These curves and analysts' forecasts of future interest rates are then used to fit an affine term structure model to Australian interest rates, with the aim of decomposing forward rates into expected future overnight cash rates plus term premia. The expected future short rates derived from the model are on average unbiased, fluctuating around the average of actual observed short rates. Since the adoption of inflation targeting and the entrenchment of low and stable inflation expectations, term premia appear to have declined in levels and displayed smaller fluctuations in response to economic shocks. This suggests that the market has become less uncertain about the path of future interest rates. Towards the end of the sample period, term premia have been negative, suggesting that investors may have been willing to pay a premium for Commonwealth Government securities. [source]