Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/100767 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 96-11
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Recent studies have documented the existence of a "predictability smile" in the term structure of interest rates: spreads between long maturity rates and short rates predict subsequent movements in interest rates provided the long horizon is three months or less or if the long horizon is two years or more, but not for intermediate maturities. Accounts for portions of the smile involve interest rate smoothing by the Fed, time-varying risk premia, "Peso problems," and measurement error. We take a more nearly general equilibrium approach to explaining this phenomenon and show that despite its highly restrictive nature, the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (1985) model of the term structure can account for the predictability smile.
Subjects: 
Financial markets
Interest rates
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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