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expectations hypothesis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables
ex-pec-ta-tion-s hy-poth-e-sis
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
8
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The proposition that a long-term interest rate is determined purely by current and future expected short-term rates, so that the expected final value of wealth from investing in a sequence of short-term bonds equals the final value of wealth from investing in long-term bonds.

Questions

What does expectations hypothesis mean?
The proposition that a long-term interest rate is determined purely by current and future expected short-term rates, so that the expected final value of wealth from investing in a sequence of short-term bonds equals the final value of wealth from investing in long-term bonds.

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