Global Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates /

This paper introduces global factors within a FAVAR framework in an empirical affine term structure model. We apply our method to a panel of international yield curves and show that global factors account for more than 80 percent of term premia in advanced economies. In particular they tend to expla...

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Main Author: Abbritti, Mirko
Other Authors: Dell'Erba, Salvatore, Moreno, Antonio, Sola, Sergio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/223
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