This article explores the time‐series behavior of correlations of returns, volatilities of returns, volatilities of volatilities, and correlations of volatilities in domestic and international financial markets such as equity (indices), interest rates (bonds), and currency (exchange rates)...

This paper presents a study of extreme interest rate movements in the U.S. Federal Funds market over almost a half century of daily observations from the mid 1950s through the end of 2000. We analyze the fluctuations of the maximal and minimal changes in short term interest rates and test the...

This paper proposes an extreme value approach to estimating the term structure of interest rate volatility, and shows that the volatility of interest rate changes is overestimated by the standard approach that uses the thin-tailed normal distribution. The volatility of maximal and minimal...

This paper analyzes the price stabilizing properties of puttable and extendible bonds, their potential to help develop interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall, prices for puttable and extendible bonds fall by...