Discussion.

The article presents commentary from Matthew Richardson about a paper written by Geert Bekaert and Robert J. Hodrick (B&H), entitled "Expectations Hypotheses Tests," which appeared in the August, 2001 issue of the "Journal of Finance." In that paper B&H examined the expectations hypothesis for interest rates. The author of the current paper notes that B&H have made three important contributions by focusing attention on testing methodologies, by developing a general econometric methodology, and by highlighting the poor finite sample properties of the Wald test.