Nominal interest rates and stationarity

作者: Mario Cerrato , Hyunsok Kim , Ronald MacDonald

DOI: 10.1007/S11156-012-0296-X

关键词: Interest rateNull hypothesisFinancial marketContrast (statistics)Risk characteristicsNominal interest rateCorporate financeEconomicsEmpirical evidenceEconometrics

摘要: This paper investigates the (break) stationarity null hypothesis using data for 25 interest rates with different maturities and risk characteristics in Canada US. In contrast to a large part of literature, this reports strong empirical evidence favour rate series.

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