International Yield Spillovers

59 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2021 Last revised: 30 Jun 2021

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Don H. Kim

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Marcelo Ochoa

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Date Written: January, 2021

Abstract

This paper investigates spillovers from foreign economies to the U.S. through changes in longterm Treasury yields. We document a decline in the contribution of U.S. domestic news to the variance of long-term Treasury yields and an increased importance of overnight yield changes—a rough proxy for the contribution of foreign shocks to U.S. yields—over the past decades. Using a model that identifies U.S., Euro area, and U.K. shocks that move global yields, we estimate that foreign (non-U.S.) shocks account for at least 20 percent of the daily variation in long-term U.S. yields in recent years. We argue that spillovers occur in large part through bond term premia by showing that a low level of foreign yields relative to U.S. yields predicts a decline in distant forward U.S. yields and higher returns on a strategy that is long on a long-term Treasury security and short on a long-term foreign bond.

JEL Classification: E52, F37, G12, G15

Suggested Citation

Kim, Don H. and Ochoa, Marcelo, International Yield Spillovers (January, 2021). FEDS Working Paper No. 2021-1, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3865403 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2021.001

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