Extracting Information from Financial Market Instruments
Abstract
Financial market prices contain information about market expectations for economic variables, such as inflation or the cash rate, that are of interest to policymakers. This article describes four financial market instruments that are particularly useful for this, and documents how market expectations and other useful information can be derived from them. In particular, it describes how overnight indexed swap rates and government bond yields can be used to estimate a zero-coupon yield curve and infer market expectations for risk-free interest rates, and how inflation swap rates and inflation-indexed government bond yields can be used to infer market expectations for the inflation rate.Download Info
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Article provided by Reserve Bank of Australia in its journal RBA Bulletin.
Volume (Year): (2012)
Issue (Month): (March)
Pages: 45-54
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Keywords: Breakeven inflation; cash rate expectations; inflation expectations; inflation swaps; OIS; zero-coupon yields;References
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- Bobby Lien & Andrew Zurawski, 2012. "Liquidity in the Australian Treasury Bond Futures Market," RBA Bulletin, Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 49-58, June.
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