Determinants of Weekly Yields on Government Securities in India

Pami Dua and Nishita Raje
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Nishita Raje: Reserve Bank of India

No 187, Working papers from Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of the Government yields in India using weekly data from April 2001 through March 2009. The analysis covers Treasury Bills with residual maturity of 15-91 days and Government securities of residual maturity one, five and ten years respectively. The empirical estimates show that a long-run relationship exists between each of these interest rates and the policy rate, rate of growth of money supply, inflation, interest rate spread, foreign interest rate and forward premium. At the same time, the empirical results also show that the relative importance of the determinants varies across the maturity spectrum. The normalized generalized variance decompositions suggest that the policy rate and the rate of growth of high powered money are less important in explaining the proportion of variation in longer term interest rates. The weight of the forward premium also diminishes as we move towards higher maturity interest rates. The inflation rate is also relatively less important in explaining variations in the 10-year rate. The yield spread, on the other hand, is more important in explaining the longer term rates. The results also show that a large proportion of the variation in the rates on the 5-year and 10-year government securities is attributed to the interest rate itself suggesting that the unexplained variation may be a result of cyclical factors that are relatively more important for longer term rates but are not captured by the yield spread and are omitted from the estimations due to the high frequency of data employed.

Keywords: interest rate determination; government yields; cointegration and generalized variance decompositions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2010-04
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