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This paper analyzes the price stabilizing properties of puttable and extendible bonds, their potential to help develop interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall, prices for puttable and extendible bonds fall by...
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under rational expectations. We also find that risk measures, in the form of conditional interest rate volatility, are …
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Statistical measures of the volatility of exchange rates, interest rates, and stock prices are estimated for a number … of countries. Periods of high volatility are identified and compared with periods of financial difficulty. The results … indicate that GARCH models of volatility could be potentially useful in assessing financial soundness. Daily data are more …
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reduced bond yields but have somewhat increased yield volatility in the post-Lehman period. Econometric analyses conducted …, foreign holdings are greatly associated with increased yield volatility. A case study using Poland data elaborates on the …
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Most developing country debt is denominated in U.S. dollars and has a floating interest rate. The pricing of floating rate debt and related interest rate options are examined in this paper. Formulas for pricing ceilings and floors on floating rate debt are derived for several different models of...
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This paper builds on the ARCH approach for modeling distributions with time-varying conditional variance by using the … (characteristics seen in high-frequency financial time series data), nests the standard normal and Student t distributions, and is …
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frequency volatility—i.e., the component of volatility that persists for longer than one harvest year—may be more challenging as … uncertainty regarding its persistence is likely to be higher. This paper measures the low frequency volatility of food commodity … spot prices using the spline- GARCH approach. It finds that low frequency volatility is positively correlated across …
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This paper, using T-GARCH models, finds that the United States has been the major source of price and volatility … ""stock market correction"" period. There is also evidence of structural breaks in the stock price and volatility dynamics …
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Using realized volatility to estimate conditional variance of financial returns, we compare forecasts of volatility …
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