Predicting Turning Points in the Interest Rate Cycle (RLE: Business Cycles)

by James W. Coons

Overview

Originally published in 1994 and the recipient of the Stonier Library Award, this volume evaluates an alternative approach – the sequential filter- to managing the uncertainty inherent in the future course of the interest rate cycle. The specific hypothesis is that the sequential filter can produce valuable signals of cyclical peaks and troughs in interest rates. The analysis focusses on US interest rates from April 1953 to December 1988.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317498643
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/24/2015
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Business Cycles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	154
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

James W. Coons

Table of Contents

1. One-Year Treasury Note Yield: January to December 1989. 2. Selected Interest Rates: 1980-1989 3. The Composite Interest Rate Cycle Index: (CIRCI): 1953-1989 4. Interest Rates and the Business Cycle: 1946-1989 5. Cyclical Peaks and Troughs in the Composite Interest Rate Cycle Index (CIRCI): 1953-1989 6. Comparison of the Timing of Turning Points in the CIRCI and its Components: 1953-1988 7. The Credit Market 8. The Leading Inflation Index and the CIRCI: 1953 to 1989 9. The Case of the Missing Signal: January to December 1981 10. Conditional Probability Distributions Observed and Smoothed: August 1953 to December 1988 11a. Sequential Filter Turning Point Probabilities: August 1953-January 1972 11b. Sequential Filter Turning Point Probabilities: August 1971-August 1990 12. Sequential Filter Turning Point Probabilities Looking For a Trough: March 1989 to October 1993.