Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240199 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 27/2021
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The decomposition of bond yields into term premiums and average expected future short rates is impaired by the limited availability of information about the dynamics of the expectations component. Therefore, many studies require the model-implied average expected future short rates to be close to short rate expectations from surveys. In this paper, I restrict the variance of changes in model-implied average expected future short rates to match the variance of changes in short rate expectations from surveys. The variance of changes in survey expectations is relatively similar across markets and thus provides a reliable source of additional information about the expectation formation of investors. Technically, I impose a nonlinear restriction to the term structure model of Adrian, Crump, and Moench (2013). I show that typical small sample problems of term structure estimations can be mitigated if the restriction on the variance of changes is imposed. However, the analysis also makes a case for unrestricted estimations if they are based on a dataset with a typical sample length in macro finance, though.
Subjects: 
Affine Term Structure Models
Empirical Finance
JEL: 
E43
E44
ISBN: 
978-3-95729-835-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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