The challenge of international term structure models is to simultaneously account for the properties of interest rate term structures and foreign exchange rates within an arbitrage-free framework. We extend the quadratic term structure models proposed in Leippold and Wu (2002) to multiple...

The Federal Reserve adjusts the target federal funds rate discretely, causing discontinuity in short-term interest rates. However, unlike random Poisson jumps, these adjustments are well anticipated by the market. Within the affine term structure framework, we incorporate an anticipated jump...

Dynamic term structure models price interest rate options based on the model-implied fair values of the yield curve, ignoring any pricing residuals on the yield curve that are either from model approximations or market imperfections. In contrast, option pricing in practice often takes the market...

We present a dynamic term structure model in which interest rates of all maturities are bounded from below at zero. Positivity and continuity, combined with no arbitrage, result in only one functional form for the term structure with three sources of risk. One dynamic factor controls the level...

This paper proposes a stylized model that reconciles several seemingly conflicting findings on financial security returns and option prices. The model is based on a pure jump Levy process, wherein the jump arrival rate obeys a power law dampened by an exponential function. The model allows for...

To simultaneously account for the properties of interest-rate term structure and foreign exchange rates within an arbitrage-free framework, we propose a multi-currency quadratic model with an (m+n) factor structure. The m factors model the term structure of interest rates in both countries. The...

This paper presents an internally consistent analysis of the economic determinants of the term structure of credit spreads across different credit rating classes and industry sectors. Our analysis proceeds in two steps. First, we extract three economic factors from 13 time series that capture...

We consider the design and estimation of quadratic term structure models. We start with a list of stylized facts on interest rates and interest rate derivatives, classified into three layers: (1) general statistical properties, (2) forecasting relations, and (3) conditional dynamics. We then...

We identify and characterize a class of term structure models where bond yields are quadratic functions of the Markov process. We label this class as the 'quadratic class' and aim to lay a solid theoretical foundation for its future empirical application. We contribute to the literature in three...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium asset pricing model to account for the discontinuous price movements commonly observed in the financial markets. We consider two possible sources: (1) jumps in the fundamental economy, as captured by the production technology, and (2) jumps in...