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Speculation, risk premia and expectations in the yield curve

Barillas, Francisco; Nimark, Kristoffer - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

the speculative term must be orthogonal to public information in real time and therefore statistically distinct from risk … yields. Furthermore, estimates of historical risk premia from the heterogeneous information model are less volatile than, and …

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Fixed-Income Pricing in a Non-Linear Interest-Rate Model.

Renne, J-P. - Banque de France - 2014

This paper introduces a novel kind of interest-rate model offering simple analytical pricing formulas for swaps, futures, swaptions, caps and floors. The model is based on an original use of regime-switching features that makes it consistent with the non-linear behavior of interest rates. In...

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The Zeeman Effect in Finance: Libor Spectroscopy and Basis Risk Management

Marco, Bianchetti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Once upon a time there was a classical financial world in which all the Libors were equal. Standard textbooks taught that simple relations held, such that, for example, a 6 months Libor Deposit was replicable with a 3 months Libor Deposits plus a 3x6 months Forward Rate Agreement (FRA), and that...

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Markets Evolution After the Credit Crunch

Bianchetti, Marco; Carlicchi, Mattia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We review the main changes in the interbank market after the financial crisis started in August 2007. In particular, we focus on the fixed income market and we analyse the most relevant empirical evidences regarding the divergence of the existing basis between interbank rates with different...

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Liquidity-adjusted benchmark yield curves: a look at trading concentration and information

Lin, William; Sun, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

phenomenon arising from horizon-induced clientele equilibrium as well as information discovery. Specifically, we employ arguments … from models of liquidity concentration and benchmark security information. After examining time series behavior of price … errors against our fitted model, we find results consistent with both the horizon and information hypotheses. Our evidence …

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Incomplete markets, liquidation risk, and the term structure of interest rates

Challe, E.; Le Grand, F.; Ragot, X. - Banque de France - 2010

We analyze the term structure of real interest rates in a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets and borrowing constraints. Agents are subject to both aggregate and idiosyncratic income shocks, which latter may force them into early portfolio liquidation in a bad aggregate state. We...

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Interest Rates After The Credit Crunch: Multiple-Curve Vanilla Derivatives and SABR

Marco, Bianchetti; Mattia, Carlicchi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present a quantitative study of the markets and models evolution across the credit crunch crisis. In particular, we focus on the fixed income market and we analyze the most relevant empirical evidences regarding the divergences between Libor and OIS rates, the explosion of Basis Swaps...

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Yield to Maturity Is Always Received as Promised: A Reply

Cebula, Richard; Yang, Bill - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This theoretical note elaborates upon why it is a myth that YTM is viewed as only a promised but not really earned interest rate. It addresses some misconceptions in Shirnani and Wilbratte (2009) on what, between YTM and RCY, is a true rate of return of a coupon bond, why YTM is not just a...

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Yield to Maturity Is Always Realized as Promised: A Reply

Cebula, Richard; Yang, Bill - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This note attempts to further elaborate why it is a myth that YTM is viewed as only a promised but not really earned interest rate. It addresses some misconceptions regarding what, between YTM and RCY, is a true rate of return of a coupon bond, why YTM is NOT just a “fictitious mathematical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112771

Estimating term structure changes using principal component analysis in Indian sovereign bond market

Nath, Golaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper analyses the India sovereign yield to find out the principal factors affecting the term structure of interest rate changes. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on our data consisting of zero coupon interest rates derived from government bond trading using Nelson-Siegel...

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