We evaluate the classical Cox, Ingersoll and Ross (1985) (CIR) model using data on LIBOR, swap rates and caps and … swaptions. With three factors the CIR model is able to fit the term structure of LIBOR and swap rates rather well. The model is … able to match the hump shaped unconditional term structure of volatility in the LIBOR-swap market. However, statistical …

the portfolio holds common stocks amounts to an asset swap. Such an asset swap does not increase national saving, wealth …. The asset swap is deemed successful if the stock portfolio generates sufficient cash to pay off the interest and principal …

interest-rate sensitivities of interest rate swap positions of U.S. commercial banks to empirically address the question of … whether swap contracts have increased or decreased systematic risk in the U.S. banking system. We find that the banking system … as a whole faces little net interest-rate risk from swap portfolios …

negative swap spreads should not be surprising. In the calibrated model, swap spreads can reasonably match empirical … counterparts without the need for large demand imbalances in the swap market. Empirical evidence is consistent with the relation … between term spreads and swap spreads in the model …

-rate swap FVAs and violations of covered interest parity. Contrary to current valuation practice, FVAs are not themselves …

transparency or illiquidity. However, several of the important announcements concerning the international swap programs …