This paper investigates how a rise in US long-term interest rates would have an effect on other international markets. We document that a significant portion of long-term interest rates is due to term premium, which can be interpreted as compensation for inflation risk. Based on an assumed...

The movement of sovereign yields is important for both investment and risk management. In this paper, we apply a method that was first developed by Diebold et al (2006b) to model the sovereign bond yield curves of the US, Japan and Germany. By including observable macroeconomic variables and the...

This paper studies the discriminatory power and calibration quality of the structural credit risk models under the 'exogenous default boundary' approach including those proposed by Longstaff and Schwartz (1995) and Collin-Dufresne and Goldstein (2001), and 'endogenous default boundary' approach...