Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/144302 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 88
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
The paper evaluates the implications of the Smets and Wouters (2004) DSGE model for the US yield curve. Bond prices are modelled in a way that is consistent with the macro model and the resulting risk premium in long term bonds is a function of the macro model parameters exclusively. When the model is estimated under the restriction that the implied average 10-year term premium matches the observed premium, it turns out that risk aversion and habit only need to rise slightly, while the increase in the term premium is achieved by a drop in the monetary policy parameter that governs the aggressiveness of the monetary policy rule. A less aggressive policy increases the persistence of the reaction of inflation and the short interest rate to any shock, reinforces the covariance between the marginal rate of substitution of consumption and bond prices, turns positive the contribution of the inflation premium and drives the term premium up. The paper concludes that by generating persistent inflation the presence of nominal rigidities can help in reconciling the macro model with the yield curve data.
Subjects: 
term structure of interest rates
policy rules
risk premia
JEL: 
E43
E44
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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