Expectations and Risk Premia at 8:30am: Macroeconomic Announcements and the Yield Curve

70 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2016

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Peter Hördahl

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Eli M. Remolona

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Monetary and Economic Department

Giorgio Valente

Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR)

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Date Written: September 21, 2015

Abstract

We investigate the movements of the yield curve after the release of major U.S. macroeconomic announcements through the lenses of an arbitrage-free dynamic term structure model with macroeconomic fundamentals. Combining estimated yield responses obtained using high-frequency data with model estimates using monthly data, we show that bond yields move after announcements mostly because of revisions to expectations about short-term interest rates. Changes in risk premia are also sizable, partly offset the effects of short-rate expectations and help to account for the hump-shaped pattern across maturities. Most announcement responses are due to changes in expectations about the output gap.

Keywords: bond excess returns, term structure of interest rates, affine models, macroeconomic announcements

JEL Classification: G0, G1, E0, E4

Suggested Citation

Hoerdahl, Peter and Remolona, Eli M. and Valente, Giorgio, Expectations and Risk Premia at 8:30am: Macroeconomic Announcements and the Yield Curve (September 21, 2015). Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2016 Conference, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2726013 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2726013

Peter Hoerdahl (Contact Author)

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Giorgio Valente

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