Mortgage risk and the yield curve

• Autores: Aytek Malkhozov, Philippe Mueller, Andrea Vedolin, Gyuri Venter
• Localización: Review of Financial Studies, ISSN-e 1465-7368, Vol. 29, Nº. 5, 2016, págs. 1220-1253
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We study feedback from the risk of outstanding mortgage-backed securities (MBS) on the level and volatility of interest rates. We incorporate supply shocks resulting from changes in MBS duration into a parsimonious equilibrium dynamic term structure model and derive three predictions that are strongly supported in the data: (1) MBS duration positively predicts nominal and real excess bond returns, especially for longer maturities; (2) the predictive power of MBS duration is transitory in nature; and (3) MBS convexity increases interest rate volatility, and this effect has a hump-shaped term structure.