Rare disasters and the term structure of interest rates

This paper offers an explanation for the properties of the nominal term structure of interest rates and time-varying bond risk premia based on a model with rare consumption disaster risk. In the model, expected inflation follows a mean reverting process but is also subject to possible large (positi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tsai, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2013