Interest Rate Skewness and Biased Beliefs

Mikhail Chernov and Michael Bauer

No 16274, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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

Keywords: Monetary policy; Biased beliefs; Skewness; Yield curve; Bond markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E44 E52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06
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