Why did the term structure of interest rates lose its predictive power?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 509-524

  Jardet, Caroline ^a  

^a CREST   (France)

Author keywords

Monetary policy; Structural changes; Term structure; Yield curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842502018     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(03)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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