We analyze contributions of different markets to price discovery on traded inflation expectations and how it changed during the financial crisis. The quicker information is processed on one market and the less one market is disrupted by the financial crisis the more valuable is its information...

Cross currency swaps are powerful instruments to transfer assets or liabilities from one currency into another. The market charges for this a liquidity premium, the cross currency basis spread, which should be taken into account by the valuation methodology. We describe and compare two valuation...

Ein Swap ist ein Vertrag zwischen zwei Parteien, die sich zum gegenseitigen Austausch zukünftiger Zahlungen verpflichten. Die Vereinbarung determiniert die Zeitpunkte, an denen die Zahlungen zu erfolgen haben, und in welcher Weise deren Betrag zu bestimmen ist. Während bei Forward-Geschäften...

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this relationship in the behavior of interest rate swap spreads and in the volume and interest rates of repurchase contracts. Specifically, we focus on convergence trading, in which...