Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. The rational expectations theory is a concept and ...

Investing may be an art, but even the greatest artists have a strong understanding of the science at the foundation of their craft. In the world of bonds, yields, and interest rates, the Unbiased ...

The assumption that investors hold rational expectations of market returns is central to many asset pricing models. However, in recent years, surveys of investors have revealed that market ...

Definition of 'Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates (Yield Curve)' Long-term interest rates reflect the market consesnsus on the changes in short-term interest rates.

Robert Lucas Jr, the recipient of the Economics Nobel Prize in 1995, breathed his last on May 15. Lucas was a preeminent macroeconomist in the Chicago tradition. Robert Lucas Jr. smiles in his Chicago ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) held its regular Monetary Policy Meeting on September 20 and 21, 2016 to define a new easing policy framework for guiding the short- and long-term interest rate, stressing its ...

In the stock markets, the pricing of any asset class is based on expectations. For example, the future price is the expected spot price and the spot price is nothing by the present value of the ...