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100 1 _aBauer, Michael D.
245 1 0 _aInterest Rate Skewness and Biased Beliefs /
_cMichael D. Bauer, Mikhail Chernov.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2021.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w28954
500 _aJune 2021.
520 3 _aConditional yield skewness is an important summary statistic of the state of the economy. It exhibits pronounced variation over the business cycle and with the stance of monetary policy, and a tight relationship with the slope of the yield curve. Most importantly, variation in yield skewness has substantial forecasting power for future bond excess returns, high-frequency interest rate changes around FOMC announcements, and consensus survey forecast errors for the ten-year Treasury yield. The COVID pandemic did not disrupt these relations: historically high skewness correctly anticipated the run-up in long-term Treasury yields starting in late 2020. The connection between skewness, survey forecast errors, excess returns, and departures of yields from normality is consistent with a theoretical framework where one of the agents has biased beliefs.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aE43 - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aE44 - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aE52 - Monetary Policy
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aG12 - Asset Pricing • Trading Volume • Bond Interest Rates
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aChernov, Mikhail.
_929165
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w28954.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28954
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28954
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