Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/66287 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 1997,78
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
The effect of incomplete information on the term structure of interest rates is examined in the framework of a pure exchange economy under uncertainty. When the growth rate of the aggregate endowment is known, the term structure is flat and deterministic. When agents do not observe the (constant) growth rate, interest rates are stochastic and the term structure turns out to be linearly decreasing. As a possible explanation of this astonishing fact, we suggest that rational and risk-averse investors consider long-term bonds as a good hedge against unfavorable realizations of the growth rate.
Subjects: 
Term Structure of Interest Rates
Incomplete Information
JEL: 
D5
D9
E4
G1
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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