Forecasting term structure of the Japanese bond yields in the presence of a liquidity trap

Authors

Albert K. Tsui
Junxiang Wu
Zhaoyong Zhang, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Zhongxi Zheng

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Journal of Forecasting

Publisher

Wiley

School

School of Business and Law

RAS ID

54862

Funders

The Sumitomo Foundation

Comments

Tsui, A. K., Wu, J., Zhang, Z., & Zheng, Z. (2023). Forecasting term structure of the Japanese bond yields in the presence of a liquidity trap. Journal of Forecasting, 42(5), 1205-1227.

. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2952

Abstract

The Nelson–Siegel (NS) model is widely used in practice to fit the term structure of interest rates largely due to its high efficacy in the in-sample fit and out-of-sample forecasting of bond yields. In this paper, we compare forecasting performances of estimated yields from the Nelson–Siegel-based models and some simpler time series models, using the daily, weekly, and monthly data during a prolong period of liquidity trap in Japan. We find that the out-of-sample expanding window forecasts by NS-based models in general perform less satisfactory than the competitor models. However, the NS-based models can be useful in forecasting yields over longer horizons and can work well with GARCH-type structures in modeling the conditional volatility.

DOI

10.1002/for.2952

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