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Can Treasury Markets Add and Subtract?

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  • Roberto Gomez Cram
  • Howard Kung
  • Hanno Lustig

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Treasury markets respond to the news in CBO cost estimates of individual bills about the future funding requirements from pending legislation. Treasury yields increase on days with major deficit-increasing bills, driven by an increase in expected inflation and nominal term premia, along with a decrease in convenience yields. The effects are three times larger for cost revisions for emergency spending proposals, which are unfunded and have a high probability of enactment. Our high-frequency estimates imply that a 1 percentage point one-time increase in deficits/GDP increases the 10-year nominal yield by 0.75 bps. This effect is equivalent to a 6.75 bps increase in yields for a persistent shock to deficits. Investors use these cost releases to learn about the U.S. fiscal stance. In a model with learning, we find that investors attributed a significant portion of the deficit news from cost releases to revisions in policy parameters and that 57% of the total deficit impact was expected to be unbacked.

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  • Roberto Gomez Cram & Howard Kung & Hanno Lustig, 2025. "Can Treasury Markets Add and Subtract?," NBER Working Papers 33604, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:33604
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    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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