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The Interest Rate Effects of Government Debt Maturity
Authors
External Authors
Turner, P
Zampolli, F
Related Themes
Macro-Economic Dynamics and PolicyJEL Code
E43, E52, E63
Paper Category Number
476
Using an empirical model, this paper finds that shortening the average maturity of US Treasury debt held outside the Federal Reserve by one year reduces the five-year forward 10-year yield by between 130 and 150 basis points. Based on a pre-crisis period, these estimates suggest that portfolio balance effects are unlikely to reflect only post-crisis market conditions. These findings also offer a partial explanation for the Greenspan conundrum: the fact that long-term interest rates in the mid-2000s rose less than expected after a rise in the Fed fund rate may have been due, to some extent, to the concomitant shortening of government debt maturity.
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