The Term Spread and the Case of the Missing 2024 Recession
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The abstract of a new paper coauthored with Laurent Ferrara, “Missing Recessions: Revisiting the Term Spread’s Predictive Power”:
The failure of a recession to materialize in 2024 has forced a reappraisal of the term spread as the most reliable recession predictor for the US. In this paper, we re-evaluate the predictive power of the term spread, and explain the false positive signal in terms of sample specificity, simultaneity, and omitted variables, focusing on the United States, b
The failure of a recession to materialize in 2024 has forced a reappraisal of the term spread as the most reliable recession predictor for the US. In this paper, we re-evaluate the predictive power of the term spread, and explain the false positive signal in terms of sample specificity, simultaneity, and omitted variables, focusing on the United States, b
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