Investigating the expectation hypothesis and the risk premium dynamics: new evidence for Brazil

João F. Caldeira ()
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João F. Caldeira: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul & CNPq

Empirical Economics, 2020, vol. 59, issue 1, No 17, 395-412

Abstract: Abstract We re-examine the validity of the expectation hypothesis (EH) of the term structure for the Brazilian fixed income market, using data from January 2000 to June 2017. Furthermore, we investigated the out-of-sample predictability of bond excess returns by means of common factors extracted from a cross-section of Brazilian macro-variables and zero-coupon interest rates. The EH is rejected throughout the term structure examined on the basis of the statistical tests across the entire maturity spectrum considered. Our results confirm previous findings, mostly obtained for developed markets, that a linear combination of forward rates and macroeconomic factors can explain a substantial portion of movements in bonds excess returns, contributing novel and up-to-date evidence from a large and dynamic emerging bond market, such as Brazil. Furthermore, we find that the factor extracted from a large panel of macroeconomic variables generates significant gains in forecasting bond excess returns relative to yield curve information.

Keywords: Expectation hypothesis; Bond risk premia; Factor models; Excess return predictability; Out-of-sample forecasts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 E43 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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