Mercatus Center | Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations @MercatusCenter | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Peter Williams is a managing director of macroeconomic research at 22V Research and was formerly at the IMF and the World Bank. Peter joins David on Macro Musings to provide a market perspective on interest rates, Treasury markets, and monetary policy. Specifically, David and Peter discuss the dos and don’ts of estimating term premiums, the importance and future of R-star, the usefulness of inflation expectations, and a lot more.

Transcript for this week’s episode. (mercatus.org/macro-musings/peter-williams-interest-rates-term-premium-and-importance-inflation-expectations)

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Related Links:
*A Macroeconomic Approach to the Term Premium* (elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2018/140/article-A001-en.xml) by Emanuel Kopp and Peter Williams
*Reading the Stars* (imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2020/07/24/Reading-the-Stars-49599) by Peter Williams, Yasser Abdih, and Emanuel Kopp
*Inflation Expectations in the U.S.: Linking Markets, Households, and Businesses* (elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/240/article-A001-en.xml) by Peter Williams