The Forward Premium Puzzle and Latent Factors Day by Day

Kerstin Bernoth (), Juergen von Hagen and Casper de Vries

No 989, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: We use futures instead of forward rates to study the complete maturity spectrum of the forward premium puzzle from two days to six months. At short maturities the slope coefficient is positive, but these turn negative as the maturity increases to the monthly level. Futures data allow us to control for the influence of an unobserved factor that can be decomposed into a contract-specific and a time- to-maturity effect. Once we do this, we find that the coefficients on the forward premium are much closer to one. The latent factor is shown to be related to conventional proxies of risk.

Keywords: forward premium puzzle; futures rates; latent factor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F37 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 p.
Date: 2010
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