The Liquidity Premium in the Money Market: A Comparison of the German Mark Period and the Euro Area

Alain Durré ()

German Economic Review, 2006, vol. 7, issue 2, 163-187

Abstract: This paper investigates to what extent the expectations hypothesis of the term structure (EHTS) of interest rates receives some support since the launch of the European single currency. Empirical evidence shows that in general this theory applies to most European countries, and to Germany in particular. The objective of this paper thus is twofold. First, the EHTS for the German money market and for a larger sample including the German mark period and the euro money market is tested in order to check whether the results for the former are affected by the new financial environment since January 1999. Second, the implications of the results for the monetary policy assessment are discussed. We estimate cointegrating vector autoregressive models in order to quantify the level of the liquidity premium. The results suggest that financial markets do not consider the monetary policy of the European Central Bank simply as the one prevailing during the German period.

Keywords: Expectations hypothesis; money market; liquidity premium; cointegration analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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