Treasury Bill Rates in the 1970s and 1980s

Expectations and the Behaviour of Spanish Treasury Bill Rates

MT in the 1970s and 1980s

(SK) Well I guess it is a slightly different answer for each of us, but essentially for all of us, it was through the Eurotra project. This was the MT project that was created by the European Commission in the late 1970s. The aim was to produce a high quality, fully automatic machine translation system for use by the EC. The EC had a serious translation problem because of the number of language...

Treasury Bill Yields : Overlooked Information ∗

Suppose a risk premium factor denotes the time-varying market prices of risk in the Treasury bond market. The question is whether the risk premium factor affects bond prices. Equivalently, we may ask whether the factor is spanned by the crosssection of term structure. This paper finds that the factor is almost but not completely hidden from term structure. Particularly, Treasury bill yields are...

Evolution of the female roles in the US (Case study: The Hollywood movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s)

Prior to the 1980s, numerous charges of discrimination were noteworthy among women in Hollywood. In those years, women were in uncertain situations, so they seemed aimless and vulnerable. In the period that this article focuses on, the female characters are or have become intelligent and therefore open-minded and potentially independent. Although, they are still vulnerable and unsure of themsel...

The Effect of Auctions on Daily Treasury-bill Volatility

We investigate the Treasury bill (T-bill) market for volatility effects, and especially any volatility introduced by the T-bill auction process. We use daily T-bill yields for on-therun 13-, 26-, and 52-week T-bills from January 1983 through December 2000. We find that T-bill volatility is not constant across a run, hence is not consistent with the Treasury's auction process intent of a stable ...