ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The importance of market microstructure in determining the success of a bond market inallocating financial resources depends on the degree to which the microstructure elements likeliquidity, efficiency and volatility have been designed to determine the proper price at...

Bond Volatility Transmissions Between United States and European MarketsSeth KulmanFaculty Sponsor: Gordon Dash, Finance and Decision SciencesRecent events have illustrated the degree of connection between the world’s economies. Economic events occurring in one country are felt in countless...

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the annualised volatility and correlation of G7 ten-year bond returns for the period July 1992 to June 1998 and the effects that such a relationship has on portfolio diversification. The stock market crash of 1987 and the...

1. Fragestellung und MotivationDie Übernahme und Transformation von Zinsrisiken ist eine wesentliche Leistung von Finanzdienstleistern.In der Literatur sind zahlreiche Ansätze identifizierbar, die das Zinsänderungsrisiko von Finanzdienstleistern erfassen. Während frühe Arbeiten meist auf...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden im theoretischen Teil die bekannten Verfahren zur Schätzung der deutschen Zinsstrukturkurve vorgestellt.Im praktischen Teil werden drei Modelle an Hand von wöchentlichen Anleihepreisdaten von Januar 1999 bis Dezember 2000 miteinanderverglichen. Außerdem...

Dynamic term structure models (DTSMs) price interest rate derivatives based on the modelimplied 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...

This paper estimates the slope of the yield curve using quarterly data on real GDP and the nominal spread proxied by the difference in returns from the 10 year bond rate and the 90 day bill rate. The time-series analysis after proper unit root tests using stationary variables revealed that the...

U.S. Treasury Securities are crucially important in many areas of finance. However, zero-coupon yields are not observable in the market. Even though published zero-coupon yields exist, they are sometimes not available for certain research topics or for high frequency. Recently, high frequency...

We propose a model that delivers endogenous variations in term spreads driven primarily by banks’ portfolio decision and their appetite to bear the risk of maturity transformation. We first show that fluctuations of the future profitability of banks’ portfolios affect their ability to cover...