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Sources of Variation in Holding Returns for Fed Funds Futures Contracts / James D. Hamilton, Tatsuyoshi Okimoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamilton, James D.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15736.
- NBER working paper series no. w15736
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- This paper relates predictable gains from positions in fed funds futures contracts to violations of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates. Although evidence for predictable gains from positions in short-horizon contracts is mixed, we find that gains in longer horizon contracts can be well described using Markov-switching models, with predictability associated with particular episodes in which economic activity was weak and variability in the returns to these contracts was quite high.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 2010.
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