autoregressive processes with stochastic volatility. The factor volatilities parsimoniously capture risk inherent to the term … illustrate that the yield and volatility factors are closely related to industrial capacity utilization, inflation, monetary … policy and employment growth. -- Term Structure Modelling ; Yield Curve Risk ; Stochastic Volatility ; Factor Models …

capturing interest rate risk. The so-called Stochastic Volatility Nelson-Siegel (SVNS) model allows for stochastic volatility in … evidence for time-varying volatility in the yield factors. This is mostly true for the level and slope volatility revealing … also the highest persistence. It turns out that the inclusion of stochastic volatility improves the model's goodness …

This paper reexamines the issue of unspanned stochastic volatility (USV) in bond markets and the puzzle of poor …