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JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Volume 89, Issue 1, Pages 158-174Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2007.08.002
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expectation hypothesis; term structure of interest rates; vector autoregression; economic value
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This paper reexamines the validity of the expectation hypothesis (EH) of the term structure of US repo rates ranging in maturity from overnight to 3 months. We extend the work of Longstaff [2000b. The term Structure of very short term rates: new evidence for the expectations hypothesis. journal of Financial Economics 58, 397-415] in two directions: (1) we implement statistical tests designed to increase test power in this context; (2) more important, we assess the economic value of departures from the EH based on criteria of profitability and economic significance in the context of a simple trading strategy. The EH is rejected throughout the term structure examined on the basis of the statistical tests. However, the results Of Our economic analysis are favorable to the EH, suggesting that the statistical rejections of the EH in the repo market are economically insignificant. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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