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Do markets learn to rationally expect US interest rates? Evidence from survey data

Georges Prat, Remzi Uctum

[en]Using Consensus Economics survey data on the US 3-month bill rate and the 10 years Treasury bonds expectations for the 3- and 12-month horizons over the period November 1989 – May 2015, this article aims at testing whether a group of rational forecasters coexists with or emerges over time beside a group of forecasters employing the traditional limited information-based rules that are the extrapolative, the adaptive, the regressive and the forward-market premium rules. We estimate the time-varying weights associated with the two groups using the Kalman filter methodology and find that the aggregate expectations fail to exhibit a learning process towards rationality both for short term and long term interest rates. While long term interest rate expectations appear to be explained only by limited information rules at any time, in the case of the short term interest rate a group of rational agents seems to have operated in the market over the whole period with a small but almost constant weight simultaneously with limited information-based forecasters. Overall, for both short and long term interest rates, our results strongly suggest that experts’ forecasts are essentially based on a combination of the four traditional processes. This is consistent with the economically rational expectations theory which suggests that information costs and agents’ aversion to misestimating future interest rates determine the optimal amounts of information on which they base their expectations.[/en]

AGENDA

mercredi 22 mars 2023

Économies du monde musulman

Hicham Benamirouche (CREAD, Alger) | Mongi Marzoug (ancien ministre tunisien de l’énergie)

La sécurité énergétique dans la région MENA: une proposition d’évaluation | La transition énergétique dans les pays du MENA

jeudi 23 mars 2023

Lunch

Benjamin Monnery

Salle 401-402 à 12h

Does the International Criminal Court Reduce Violence Against Civilians?

lundi 27 mars 2023

Professeurs invités

Axel Gautier

jeudi 30 mars 2023

Groupe de travail « Intelligence artificielle »

Paola Tubaro (CREST)

Salle : G614B

Artificial intelligence, labour transformations, and inconspicuous inequalities: women’s work on digital ‘micro-tasking’ platforms

jeudi 30 mars 2023

Doctorants

Morel Tien

Migration et synchronisation des cycles

lundi 3 avril 2023

Law, Institutions and Economics in Nanterre (LIEN)

Stefania Marcassa (CY Cergy)

En salle 614 et en distanciel

TBA

mardi 4 avril 2023

Recherche et Economie et Socioéconomie Politique, des Institutions et des Régulations (RESPIR)

Franck Bessis (Triangle et Université Lyon 2)

Une ethnographie de l’expertise économique d’Etat

mardi 4 avril 2023

Développement Durable Environnement et Energie (DDEE)

Etienne Lorang (Tilburg University)

Salle 614B de 16h00 – 17h00)

A CGE Integrating Material Stocks and Flows

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