Arbeitspapier

Ambiguity, nominal bond yields and real bond yields

Equilibrium bond-pricing models rely on inflation being bad news for future growth to generate upward-sloping nominal yield curves. We develop a model that can generate upward-sloping nominal and real yield curves by instead using ambiguity about inflation and growth. Ambiguity can help resolve the puzzling fact that upward-sloping yield curves have persisted despite positive inflation shocks changing from negative to positive news about growth in the last twenty years. Investors make decisions using worst-case beliefs, under which the expectations hypothesis roughly holds. However, inflation and growth evolve over time under the true distribution, and this difference makes excess returns on long-term bonds predictable. The model is also consistent with the recent empirical findings on the term structure of equity returns.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2018-24

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Economics: General
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Thema
Asset pricing
Financial markets
Interest rates

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Zhao, Guihai
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2018-24
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.20252025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Zhao, Guihai
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2018

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