The predictive power of yield spread: evidence from wavelet analysis

Arif Dar, Amaresh Samantaraya () and Firdous Shah ()

Empirical Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 3, 887-901

Abstract: This paper examines whether the spread between long- and short-terminterest rates contains information about future economic activity in India. Using the yields on securities with maturities ranging from three months to ten years, we construct five different yield spreads at shorter end, longer end, and policy relevant area of the yield curve. We study the predictive power of each of these spreads for output growth within aggregate and time scale framework using wavelet methodology. We find that predictive power holds only at lower frequencies for the spreads which are constructed at shorter end and policy relevant areas of yield curve. However, spreads which are constructed at the longer end of the yield curve do not seem to have predictive information for output growth. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Yield spread; Wavelets; Multiresolution analysis; DWT; MODWT; C49; E43; E44; E47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0705-6

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