Bond Risk Premia and Restrictions on Risk Prices

Researchers who estimate affine term structure models often impose overidentifying restrictions (restrictions on parameters beyond those necessary for identification) for a variety of reasons. While some of those restrictions seem to have minor effects on the extracted factors and some measures of r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Hevia, Constantino, Sola, Martin
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/175977
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/175977
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:BOND RISK PREMIA
AFFINE TERM STRUCTURE MODELS
RISK PRICES
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
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Sumario:Researchers who estimate affine term structure models often impose overidentifying restrictions (restrictions on parameters beyond those necessary for identification) for a variety of reasons. While some of those restrictions seem to have minor effects on the extracted factors and some measures of risk premia, such as the forward risk premium, they may have a large impact on other measures of risk premia that is often ignored. In this paper, we analyze how apparently innocuous overidentifying restrictions imposed on affine term structure models can lead to large differences in several measures of risk premiums.