This pap er intro duces a general framework for market mo dels, namedM arket M o del Approach, through the concept of admissible sets of for-ward swap rates spanning a given tenor structure. We relate this conceptto results in graph theory by showing that a set is admissible if and only ifthe...

Washington's remedy to the financial problems that began in 2008 was the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) — the so called bailout of the banking system. Whatever its merits, it was, for the most part, unpopular with the American public. Lawmakers, fearful that the economy might actually...