Subjective Bond Returns and Belief Aggregation
View/ Open
Publisher
Journal
The Review of Financial Studies
ISSN
0893-9454
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
This paper proposes an aggregation scheme of subjective bond return expectations based on the historical accuracy of professional interest rate forecasters. We use disaggregated survey data on bond returns and document large disagreement in the cross-sectional distribution and persistence in forecast accuracy. Our aggregate subjective belief proxy outperforms equal weighting schemes, and its dynamics are significantly different from statistical forecasting models. With this measure in hand, we study the relationship between quantities of risk and subjective expectations of excess returns and demonstrate a strong link between the two, even if such a relationship is difficult to detect using realized returns.
Authors
Avesani, ICollections
- Economics and Finance [368]