Parametric forecasts of Australian yield curves

Anthony Hall

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 1999, vol. 48, issue 4, 541-549

Abstract: Conventional time series methods have been generally unsuccessful in forecasting interest rates, with fitted ARIMA models being close to random walks. The method proposed here is to forecast the whole of the yield curve, from which forecasts of individual rates may be extracted. The method is applied to Australian Government bond data and the forecasts derived from the proposed method appear to perform at least as well as the naive no-change forecasts.

Keywords: Bond yield curve; Parametric forecasts; Vector autoregressive model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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