Regime Switching in the Yield Curve
Charlotte Christiansen
No 02-13, Finance Working Papers from University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Business Studies
Abstract:
The paper investigates the effect of interest-rate variance on the shape of the
yield curve using a bivariate 2-state Markov switching model for the short-rate changes
and the yield curve slope. The two states are characterized by the variance of the shortrate
changes: Low and high variance. In the high variance regime the yield curve becomes
steeper with the interest-rate variance, in the low variance regime the slope is independent
hereof. A non-switching specification amounts to averaging across the two states. The
economy is in the high variance state during unusual economic periods.
Keywords: Interest-rate variance; Regime switching; SWARCH; Yield curve; Yield curve slope (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2002-05-09
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