A Post-Pandemic New Normal for Interest Rates in Emerging Bond Markets? Evidence from Chile

Luis Ceballos, Jens Christensen and Damian Romero

No 2024-04, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers intensely debated the extent of the decline in the steady-state short-term real interest rate—the so-called equilibrium or natural rate of interest. Given the recent sharp increase in interest rates, we revisit this question in an emerging bond market context and offer a Chilean perspective using a dynamic term structure finance model estimated directly on the prices of individual Chilean inflation indexed bonds with adjustments for bond-specific liquidity risk and real term premia. We estimate that the equilibrium real rate in Chile fell about 2 and a half percentage points in the 2003-2022 period and has remained low since then.

Keywords: affine arbitrage-free term structure model; financial market frictions; monetary policy; rstar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E43 E52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2024-02-21
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DOI: 10.24148/wp2024-04

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