The emergence of new benchmark yield curves

Philip Wooldridge

BIS Quarterly Review, 2001

Abstract: To properly guide decisions to borrow and invest in an economy, capital markets should incorporate all available information about the future prospects of borrowers and the willingness of investors to postpone consumption and take risks. The process by which prices in fixed income markets adjust to new information and move towards their equilibrium value is more efficient when market participants agree on certain instruments that can serve as references – or benchmarks – for pricing other securities. In recent decades, market participants have relied on government yield curves to assess the cost of funds at different borrowing horizons; price discovery about inflation prospects and other macroeconomic fundamentals occurred mainly in government securities markets. But private sector debt instruments, in particular collateralised obligations and interest rate swaps, also have the potential to serve as benchmark yield curves, and indeed are increasingly being used as such.

Date: 2001
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