A Technique for Extracting a Measure of Expected Inflation from the Interest Rate Term Structure

Publication information:

Frankel J. A Technique for Extracting a Measure of Expected Inflation from the Interest Rate Term Structure. Review of Economics and Statistics. 1982;64(1):135–142.

Abstract

A long-short term spread is often used as a leading indicator of inflation of growth.  But every point along the yield curve offers information.  Thsi paper developed a formula for making use of the term structure along its entire length