Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240330 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers No. 7/2020
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
We propose a model in which sticky expectations concerning shortterm interest rates generate joint predictability patterns in bond and currency markets. Using our calibrated model, we quantify the effect of this channel and find that it largely explains why short rates and yield spreads predict bond and currency returns. The model also creates the downward sloping term structure of carry trade returns documented by Lustig et al. (2019), difficult to replicate in a rational expectations framework. Consistent with the model, we find that variables that predict bond and currency returns also predict surveybased expectational errors concerning interest and FX rates. The model explains why monetary policy induces drift patterns in bond and currency markets and predicts that long-term rates are a better gauge of market's short rate expectations than previously thought.
Subjects: 
Bond and currency premia
sticky expectations
interestrate forecast errors
JEL: 
E43
F31
D84
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-323-326-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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