There is strong empirical evidence that long-term interest rates contain a time-varying risk premium. Options may contain valuable information about this risk premium because their prices are sensitive to the underlying interest rates. We use the joint time-series of swap rates and interest rate...

In this paper, a simple no-arbitrage methodology to estimate option-implied interest rates and dividend yields simultaneously via a regression model is employed. Since the mean-based least squares estimation places equal weights on all data points making it sensitive to outliers, a robust...