Yield curve can help improve forecasts – RBNZ economists

Yield curve information tends to improve forecasts of economic activity, researchers find

Leo Krippner, Central Banking Awards 2017
Leo Krippner
Janie Airey

Information contained within the yield curve can help improve forecasts of the macroeconomy, according to a discussion paper published by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Economists Leo Krippner and Michelle Lewis test their macro-financial vector autoregression model against “traditional” macroeconomic models. They deal with the zero lower bound using the concept of a “shadow” rate, a hypothetical rate that would hold if a central bank could cut rates below the lower bound. Krippner won Centra

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