Campbell, JohnShiller, Robert2009-08-211991Campbell, John Y., and Robert J. Shiller. 1991. Yield spreads and interest rate movements: a bird's eye view, in The Econometrics of Financial Markets, special issue, Review of Economic Studies 58, no. 3: 495-514.0034-6527http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3221490This paper examines postwar U.S. term structure data and finds that for almost any combination of maturities between one month and ten years, a high yield spread between a longer-term and a shorter-term interest rate forecasts rising shorter-term interest rates over the long term, but a declining yield on the longer-term bond over the short term. This pattern is inconsistent with the expectations theory of the term structure, but is consistent with a model in which the spread is proportional to the value implied by the expectations theory.en-US10.2307/2298008