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Expectations and the Treasury Bill-Federal Funds Rate Spread over Recent Monetary Policy Regimes

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Simon, David P
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This paper shows that the spread between the three-month Treasury bill and the federal funds rate has significant predictive power for the future change in the federal funds rate during the volatile nonborrowed reserves operating regime, but it has less and no predictive power during the borrowed reserves regime and the federal funds targeting regime, respectively. These findings suggest that Treasury bill rates forecast future federal funds rates most accurately when the Federal Reserve follows a well-defined rule that does not smooth the impact of shocks on the federal funds rate. Copyright 1990 by American Finance Association. See http://www.jstor.org for details.

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Article provided by American Finance Association in its journal Journal of Finance.

Volume (Year): 45 (1990)
Issue (Month): 2 (June)
Pages: 467-77
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