Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36711 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 981
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This note examines the stochastic properties of US term spreads with parametric and semi-parametric fractional integration techniques. Since the observed data (rather than the estimated residuals from a cointegrating regression) are used for the analysis, standard methods can be applied. The results indicate that US Treasury maturity rates are I(1) in most cases, although the order of integration decreases with maturity. Further, mean reversion occurs for the 5, 7 and 10 year rates as well as for several term spreads, suggesting that the expectation hypothesis of the term structure is satisfied empirically.
Subjects: 
Term structure
long memory
fractional integration
fractional cointegration
JEL: 
C22
E43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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