This paper estimates expected future real interest rates and inflation rates from observed prices of UK government nominal and index-linked bonds. The estimation method takes account of imperfections in the indexation of UK index-linked bonds. It assumes that expected log returns on all bonds...

Using market prices of inflation-linked bonds and nominal bonds issued by the French Treasury, both the real and nominal zero coupon curves are estimated from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015. Several methods are applied to extract zero coupon bond prices: bootstrapping, a piecewise constant...