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JOURNAL OF FINANCE
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jofi.13276
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The conditional skewness of Treasury yields is an important indicator of macroeconomic risks, as it can predict future bond excess returns and interest rate changes. These predictions are consistent with the presence of one market participant having incorrect beliefs about consumption growth.
Conditional skewness of Treasury yields is an important indicator of the risks to the macroeconomic outlook. Positive skewness signals upside risk to interest rates during periods of accommodative monetary policy and an upward-sloping yield curve, and vice versa. Skewness has substantial predictive power for future bond excess returns, high-frequency interest rate changes around Federal Open Market Committee announcements, and survey forecast errors for interest rates. The estimated expectational errors, or biases in beliefs, are quantitatively important for statistical bond risk premia. These findings are consistent with a heterogeneous-beliefs model in which one of the agents is wrong about consumption growth.
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