Interest Rate Skewness and Biased Beliefs

Michael Bauer and Mikhail Chernov

No 28954, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The conditional skewness of Treasury yields is an important indicator of the risks to the macroeconomic outlook. Positive skewness signals upside risk to interest rates during periods of accommodative monetary policy and an upward-sloping yield curve, and vice versa. Skewness has substantial predictive power for future bond excess returns, high-frequency interest rate changes around FOMC announcements, and survey forecast errors for interest rates. The estimated expectational errors, or biases in beliefs, are quantitatively important for statistical bond risk premia. These findings are consistent with a heterogeneous-beliefs model where one of the agents is wrong about consumption growth.

JEL-codes: E43 E44 E52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06
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Published as MICHAEL BAUER & MIKHAIL CHERNOV, 2024. "Interest Rate Skewness and Biased Beliefs," The Journal of Finance, vol 79(1), pages 173-217.

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