Published:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, November 1990
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w3511
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1 Online-Ressource
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w3511
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Description:
We investigate the efficacy of riding the yield curve. This strategy dictates holding longer-term treasury bills when the yield curve is upwardsloping. We find that the strategy is surprisingly effective. it stochastically dominates buying and holding shorter-term bills for large subperiods, and nearly dominates for the entire sample period, 1949-1988. Our empirical results suggest that abnormal profit opportunities are available from selectively increasing the maturity of a short-term portfolio