Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153410 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 976
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper tests the expectations hypothesis (EH) of the term structure of interest rates in US data, using spectral regression techniques that allow us to consider different frequency bands. We find a positive relation between the term spread and the change in the long-term interest rate in a frequency band of 6 months to 4 years, whereas the relation is negative at higher and lower frequencies. We confirm that the variance of term premia relative to expected changes in long-term interest rates dominates at high and low frequencies, leading the EH to be rejected in those bands but not in the intermediate frequency band.
Subjects: 
Expectations theory of the term structure
frequency domain
Interest Rates
spectral regression
JEL: 
C22
E43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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