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REVISTA ASTURIANA DE ECONOMÍA - RAE Nº 27 2003 ABSTRACT This work reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the term structure of interest rates (TSIR). We classify theoretical mo<strong>de</strong>ls in macroeconomic ones, interested in <strong>de</strong>termining the relation between the variables of the economy and the TSIR, and financial ones, which start from the arbitrage valuation continuous time. The empirical literature is focused on testing the Expectations Hypothesis (EH), and on analyzing the term premia. The first ones generally reject several implications of EH, indicating the existence of variable term premia. These premia are analyzed as a function of the risk on the future evolution of the rates. Key words: term structure of interest rates, expectations hypothesis, term premia. 47