The dissertation discusses issues in the field of industrial organization. When the government provides better infrastructure to competing firms for innovation, private firms' R&D expenditures are affected. When the government doesn't assure project completion, the uncertainty impacts private...

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...

Este artículo presenta una nueva metodología para estimar el gasto financiero de la Administración Central. La idea subyacente es la de representar desagregadamente la dinámica de la deuda y del gasto por intereses a partir de cuatro elementos: el saldo vivo de la deuda pública inicial, las...

Es difícil cuadrar la reacción asimétrica de las curvas de tipos en el área del euro tras el anuncio del programa de compras de emergencia frente a la pandemia (PEPP, por sus siglas en inglés) del Banco Central Europeo (BCE) con la interpretación ortodoxa de los efectos de las compras de...