What drove macroeconomic fluctuations over the past 700 years?
In our 🚨 new working paper 🚨 “A Millennium of UK Business Cycles: Insights from Structural VAR Analysis” (with haroon Mumtaz and @_Gabor_Pinter_ ), we show:
🧵SWP 1045 by Rodrigo Guimaraes, Gabor Pinter + Jean-Charles Wijnandts (all BoE) explores how bond market liquidity affects how long-term treasury yields reacts to US monetary policy shocks.
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The trading activity of LDIs and pension funds (especially their linker flows) can explain this relative mispricing. Hedge funds respond to mispricing but it doesn't constitute arbitrage – they adjust their bond portfolios appropriately, but don't hedge it with inflation swaps.
Our paper uses UK micro data to study the relative mispricing of inflation-linked bonds, nominal bonds and inflation swaps - one of the largest examples of the violation of the law of one price (Fleckenstein, Longstaff, and @HannoLustig , 2014).
https://t.co/5zuXlqD7r1
🧵SWP 1032 by Gabor Pinter + Danny Walker (both BoE) looks at interest rate risk across non-bank financial intermediaries using transaction level data on gilt, interest rate swap, futures + options market
https://t.co/6b5pp0ge5q
@TomW100@BoE_Research thank you for the comments, Tom! The analysis in the paper uses a subsample of SMMD where repo counterparties could be matched with gilt transactions during the crisis period. In future revisions, I’ll try to improve this match.
🧵SWP 1019 by Gabor Pintér combines several sources of transaction level data to sketch out a narrative of September 2022 gilt market crisis and documents a number of key stylised facts about how it played out…
https://t.co/vVmCSaqZFW
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1/8 This is a great discussion, so I shall continue. Second round answer to @IvanWerning. I like very much the Werning-Lorenzoni framework. https://t.co/HA0EA5drYq One of its merits is indeed to show that thinking in terms of distributional conflict is totally mainstream.