dealing with more than one lag. When the mean has an additive structure, however, better estimation methods are available … estimation of the conditional mean, it is equally if not more important to measure the future risk of the series along with the … interpretation of each lagged value's influence on such a function. In this paper we consider the joint estimation of both the …

We introduce a new method for the estimation of discount functions, yield curves and forward curves from government … although we do show how to impose various restrictions in the estimation. Our method is based on Kernel smoothing and is … our estimation procedure is iterative, rather like the backfitting method of estimating non-parametric models. We …