How Important are Debt and Growth Expectations for Interest Rates? /

This paper uses a dataset on private-sector risk aversion as well as expectations of long-run growth and debt to explain trends in implied forward rates on government bonds in the G-7 countries. The results show, consistent with the literature, that a one-percent rise in the long-run projected debt-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rafiq, Sohrab
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/094
Online Access:Full text available on IMF