Factors of the term structure of sovereign yield spreads and the effect on the uncovered interest rate parity model for exchange rate prediction

Using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach, we investigate the sovereign yield spread term structure of the BRICS economies against the U.S. We show that the term structure for these markets are primarily driven by three latent factors which can be classified as the spread level, slope and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reddy, Desigan
Other Authors: Huang, Chun-Sung
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29691