Interest Rate Targeting and the Dynamics of Short-Term Rates

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Pierluigi Balduzzi

Boston College - Carroll School of Management

Giuseppe Bertola

University of Turin - Department of Economics

Silverio Foresi

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. - Quantitative Strategy Group

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Date Written: December 1994

Abstract

We explore the link between the overnight fed funds rate, which is actively targeted by the Federal Reserve, and longer-maturity term fed funds rates. We develop a term-structure model which explicitly accounts for interest rate targeting and for the predictability of future target changes. The model is able to replicate some qualitative features of the dynamic behavior of deviations of short-term rates from the target.

Keywords: fed funds rates, expectation hypothesis, autocovariance functions

Suggested Citation

Balduzzi, Pierluigi and Bertola, Giuseppe and Foresi, Silverio, Interest Rate Targeting and the Dynamics of Short-Term Rates (December 1994). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-94-011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1298814

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