Modelling the Yield Curve

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Mark P. Taylor

Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Brookings Institution

Date Written: December 1991

Abstract

We test and estimate a variety of alternative models of the yield curve, using weekly, high-quality U.K. data. We extend the Campbell-Shiller technique to the overlapping data case and apply it to reject the pure expectations hypothesis under rational expectations. We also find that risk measures, in the form of conditional interest rate volatility, are unable to explain the term premium. A simple, market segmentation approach is, however, moderately successful in explaining the term premium.

Keywords: interest rates, term structure, expectations, risk, market segmentation

JEL Classification: E43

Suggested Citation

Taylor, Mark P., Modelling the Yield Curve (December 1991). IMF Working Paper No. 91/134, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=885174

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