The Libor market model, also known as the BGM Model, is a term structure model of interest rates. It is widely used for pricing interest rate derivatives, especially Bermudan swaptions, and other exotic Libor callable derivatives. For numerical implementation the pricing of derivatives with...

We consider the desirability of modifying a standard Taylor rule for a central bank’s interest rate policy to incorporate either an adjustment for changes in interest rate spreads (as proposed by Taylor [2008] and McCulley and Toloui [2008]) or a response to variations in the aggregate volume...