Term Premium
Also called: term premia, duration premium
The term premium is the extra yield investors demand for holding long bonds instead of rolling short ones — compensation for bearing rate uncertainty. It's the wedge between long yields and pure expectations, and it can be negative when demand for safe long-duration assets is intense. Because it can't be observed directly it must be modelled, which is why estimates from different central banks disagree by meaningful amounts.
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