scholarly journals International Real Estate Review

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ling T. He ◽  
◽  
James. R. Webb ◽  
Neil Myer ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Corporate Bonds ◽  
High Yield ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Holding Period ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Time Specific

In order to identify effective interest rate proxies for equity and mortgage REITs, this study analyzes seven different interest rate proxies that have been widely used in the REIT literature. They are the monthly holding period returns on long-term U.S. government bonds and high-grade corporate bonds, the percentage changes in yields for long-term U.S. government bonds and high-yield (Baa) corporate bonds, the difference between returns on long-term U.S. government bonds and T-bill rates, the spread between yields on high-yield (Baa) corporate bonds and returns on long-term U.S. government bonds, and the spread between returns on high-grade corporate bonds and returns on long-term U.S. government bonds. The overall OLS results suggest that mortgage REITs are sensitive to all proxies, while equity REITs are significantly affected by only changes in yields on long-term U.S. government bonds and high-yield corporate bonds. The time variation paths for sensitivities indicate that all interest rate sensitivities are time specific. Overall, the changes in yields on high-yield corporate bonds (Baa) has the strongest explanatory power for returns of equity and mortgage REITs for most of the 27-year sample period (1972 through 1998).

A Note Concerning the Dynamics of Government Bond Yields

2021 ◽  
pp. 056943452098827
Author(s):  
Tanweer Akram
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Yield Curve ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Government Bond ◽  
Bond Yields ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Government Bonds

Keynes argued that the central bank can influence the long-term interest rate on government bonds and the shape of the yield curve mainly through the short-term interest rate. Several recent empirical studies that examine the dynamics of government bond yields not only substantiate Keynes’s view that the long-term interest rate responds markedly to the short-term interest rate but also have relevance for macroeconomic theory and policy. This article relates Keynes’s discussions of money, the state theory of money, financial markets, investors’ expectations, uncertainty, and liquidity preference to the dynamics of government bond yields for countries with monetary sovereignty. Investors’ psychology, herding behavior in financial markets, and uncertainty about the future reinforce the effects of the short-term interest rate and the central bank’s monetary policy actions on the long-term interest rate. JEL classifications: E12; E40; E43; E50; E58; E60; F30; G10; G12; H62; H63

scholarly journals Liquidity Choice and Misallocation of Credit

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (284) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Ebrahimy
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Type I ◽  
Pareto Improvement ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
High Interest Rate ◽  
Liquid Asset ◽  
Constrained Efficiency ◽  
Liquid Type ◽  
The Interest Rate

This paper studies a novel type of misallocation of credit between investments of varying liquidity. One type of investment is more liquid, i.e., its return is more pledgeable, and the other is more productive. Low liquidities of both investment types imply that the allocation of credit is constrained inefficient and that there is overinvestment in the liquid type. Constrained inefficient equilibria feature non-positive, i.e., one less than or equal the economy’s growth rate, and yet too high interest rate, too much investment and too little consumption. Financial development can reduce long-term welfare and output in a constrained inefficient equilibrium if it raises the liquidity of the liquid type. I show a maximum liquid asset ratio or a simple debt tax can achieve constrained efficiency. Introducing government bonds can make Pareto improvement whenever it does not raise the interest rate.

scholarly journals Predicting Growth Components – Unemployment, Housing Prices and Consumption Using Both Government and Corporate Yield Curves

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Dan Saar ◽  
Yossi Yagil
Keyword(s):  
Unemployment Rate ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Corporate Bonds ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Yield Curves ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Bond Spreads

In this study, we predict changes in specific segments of economic growth including the unemployment rate, the housing prices and changes in personal consumption by employing corporate and government bonds. Our hypothesis is that the use of yield curves of corporate bonds will improve the predictions over previous models that used only the yield curves of government bonds. Our results support that contention. We find that corporate bonds’ spreads actually help predicting the changes in both the unemployment rate and housing prices. We also find a significant positive relationship between bond spreads and future changes in personal consumption levels, but the results are weaker than in the other two segments. One additional finding worth noting is that government bonds are better predictors for the long-term, whereas corporate bonds are better indicators for the short-term.

scholarly journals Quantitative Monetary Easing and Risk in Financial Asset Markets

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Kimura ◽  
David H. Small
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Corporate Bonds ◽  
Asset Markets ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Risk Premiums ◽  
Portfolio Rebalancing

In this paper, we empirically examine the portfolio-rebalancing effects stemming from the policy of “quantitative monetary easing” recently undertaken by the Bank of Japan when the nominal short-term interest rate was virtually at zero. Portfolio-rebalancing effects resulting from the open market purchase of long-term government bonds under this policy have been statistically significant. Our results also show that the portfolio-rebalancing effects were beneficial in that they reduced risk premiums on assets with counter-cyclical returns, such as government and high-grade corporate bonds. But, they may have generated the adverse effects of increasing risk premiums on assets with pro-cyclical returns, such as equities and low-grade corporate bonds. These results are consistent with a CAPM framework in which business-cycle risk importantly affects risk premiums. Our estimates capture only some of the effects of quantitative easing and thus do not imply that the complete set of effects were adverse on net for Japan’s economy. However, our analysis counsels caution in accepting the view that, ceteris paribus, a massive large-scale purchase of long-term government bonds by a central bank provides unambiguously positive net benefits to financial markets at zero short-term interest rates.

scholarly journals An empirical analysis of long-term Brazilian interest rates

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257313
Author(s):  
Tanweer Akram ◽  
Syed Al-Helal Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Government Bond ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Brazilian Government

This paper empirically models the dynamics of Brazilian government bond (BGB) yields based on monthly macroeconomic data, in the context of the evolution of the key macroeconomic variables in Brazil. The results show that the current short-term interest rate has a decisive influence on the long-term interest rate on BGBs, after controlling for various key macroeconomic variables, such as inflation and industrial production. These findings support John Maynard Keynes’s claim that the central bank’s actions influence the long-term interest rate on government bonds mainly through the current short-term interest rate. These findings have important policy implications for Brazil. This paper relates the findings of the estimated models to ongoing debates in fiscal and monetary policies.

Financial market determinants of the real cost of funds to public corporations in the US

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Cebula ◽  
Fabrizio Rossi ◽  
Fiorentina Dajci ◽  
Maggie Foley
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Real Interest Rate ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Corporate Bonds ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Monetary Base ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
The Usa

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of a variety of financial market forces on the ex post real cost of funds to corporations, namely, the ex post real interest rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA. The study is couched within an open-economy loanable funds model, and it adopts annual data for the period 1973-2013, so that the results are current while being applicable only for the post-Bretton Woods era. The auto-regressive two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations reveal that the ex post real interest rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA was an increasing function of the ex post real interest rate yields on six-month Treasury bills, seven-year Treasury notes, high-grade municipal bonds and the Moody’s BAA-rated corporate bonds, while being a decreasing function of the monetary base as a per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and net financial capital inflows as a per cent of GDP. Finally, additional estimates reveal that the higher the budget deficit as a per cent of GDP, the higher the ex post real interest rate on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds. Design/methodology/approach After developing an initial open-economy loanable funds model, the empirical dimension of the study involves auto-regressive, two-stage least squares and GMM estimates. The model is then expanded to include the federal budget deficit, and new AR/2SLS and GMM estimates are provided. Findings The AR/2SLS and GMM (generalized method of moments) estimations reveal that the ex post real interest rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA was an increasing function of the ex post real interest rate yields on six-month Treasury bills, seven-year Treasury notes, high-grade municipal bonds and the Moody’s BAA-rated corporate bonds, while being a decreasing function of the monetary base as a per cent of GDP and net financial capital inflows as a per cent of GDP. Finally, additional estimates reveal that the higher the budget deficit as a per cent of GDP, the higher the ex post real interest rate on AAA-rated long -term corporate bonds. Originality/value The author is unaware of a study that adopts this particular set of real interest rates along with net capital inflows and the monetary base as a per cent of GDP and net capital inflows. Also, the data run through 2013. There have been only studies of deficits and real interest rates in the past few years.

scholarly journals PENGARUH SUKU BUNGA, PRODUK DOMESTIK BRUTO DAN NILAI TUKAR TERHADAP EKSPOR DI INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-317
Author(s):  
Okta Rabiana Risma ◽  
T. Zulham ◽  
Taufiq C. Dawood
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Domestic Product ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Auto Regressive ◽  
The Difference

This research aims to analyze the level of exports in Indonesia by using Time Series data from the year 1990 to 2015 against a variable interest rate loands, gross domestic product, and the exchange rate. Methods of analysis used i.e, Auto Regressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL). The results showed that the three variables have no Granger which is caused by the difference of the order on the test stasioner. Based on a test of wald for the short term that gained and the long-term gross domestic product, exchange rates and interest rates significantly influential credit toward export.Keywords:ARDL, export, interest rate loands, gross domestic product, exchange rates.AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat ekspor di Indonesia dengan menggunakan data Time Series dari tahun 1990 sampai 2015 terhadap variabel suku bunga kredit, produk domestik bruto, dan nilai tukar. Metode analisis yang digunakan yaitu AutoRegressive Distributed Lagged (ARDL).Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ketiga variabel tidak memiliki kointegrasi yang disebabkan oleh perbedaan ordo pada uji stasionernya. Berdasarkan uji wald didapat bahwa untuk jangka pendek dan jangka panjang produk domestik bruto, nilai tukar dan suku bunga kredit berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap ekspor.

Interest Rate Controls: The United States in the 1940s

1992 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 631-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Toma
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Rational Expectations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Treasury Bills ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Market Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Interest Rate

In 1942 the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve agreed to keep the interest rate on long-term government bonds below a ceiling of 2.5 percent. Assuming rational expectations, the ceiling on long-term interest rates can be viewed as a government commitment to low long-run inflation. The Fed also agreed to buy and sell short-term government bonds at a below-market rate of 3/8 percent. This policy did not result in long-run inflation because it was narrowly confined to 3-month Treasury bills.

scholarly journals The Role Of Growth In Long Term Investment Returns

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Paul Broussard ◽  
David Michayluk ◽  
Walter P. Neely
Keyword(s):  
Explanatory Power ◽  
High Growth ◽  
High Growth Rate ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Stock Valuation ◽  
Holding Period ◽  
Investment Returns

<p class="MsoBodyText2" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Stocks with a high valuation compared to fundamental values imply a high growth rate, yet these stocks have typically under-performed in subsequent years supporting Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishney's (1994) contrarian investment strategies. The precise definition of growth and subtle differences of measuring growth are explored in assessing the role of growth in long-term investment decisions and stock valuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Results from a later period and with additional tests than employed by LSV indicate that growth is a primary valuation factor, and valuation measures such as E/P and B/M, are imperfect proxies for expected growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Growth appears mean reverting, but investors do not seem able to discern changes in growth rates and this miss-specification of expected growth may help explain the superiority of value versus growth strategies. In addition, investors&rsquo; na&iuml;ve extrapolations of past growth provide explanatory power in future holding period returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></span></p>

Expectations and Equilibrium in High-Grade Australian Bond Markets

2005 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 573-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis In ◽  
Jonathan A. Batten
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Term Structure ◽  
Bond Markets ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Expectations Hypothesis ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Equilibrium Relationships ◽  
Canonical Cointegrating Regression

This paper examines the equilibrium implications of the Expectations Hypothesis of term structure to different maturities of high-grade Australian dollar denominated Eurobonds and Australian Government bonds (AGBs) using the Canonical Cointegrating Regression (CCR) technique developed by Econometrica 60 (1992) 119. Our findings provide evidence only for equilibrium relationships between each group of bonds based on credit class, but not between any of the subsets of AGBs and the Eurobonds. Furthermore, the error correction model supports theory with the most liquid, long-term 10-year AGB driving the AGB term structure, with short-term yields adjusting to movements in the long-run yields, though the opposite is true for Eurobonds. The lesson for markets is to simplify the risk management task. Managers are advised to treat portfolios of equivalent credit class separately for hedging and risk management.

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