A Macro-Finance Model of the Term Structure, Monetary Policy, and the Economy

Tao Wu () and Glenn Rudebusch ()

No 104, 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: This paper develops and estimates a macro-finance model that combines a canonical affine no-arbitrage finance specification of the term structure with standard macroeconomic aggregate relationships for output and inflation. From this new empirical formulation, we obtain several important results: (1) the latent term structure factors from finance no-arbitrage models appear to have important macroeconomic and monetary policy underpinnings, (2) there is no evidence of monetary policy inertia or a slow partial adjustment of the policy interest rate by the Federal Reserve, and (3) both forward-looking and backward-looking elements play important roles in macroeconomic dynamics

Keywords: Term Structure; Monetary Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004
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