We analyze a six-factor model for Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and swap rates and decompose swap spreads into three components: A convenience yield from holding Treasuries, a credit risk element from the underlying LIBOR rate, and a factor specific to the swap market. The convenience yield...

We study a structural model that allows us to examine how credit spreads are affected by the interaction of macroeconomic conditions and firm characteristics. Unlike most other structural models, our model explicitly incorporates equilibrium macroeconomic dynamics and models a firm's cash flow...

A variety of realistic economic considerations make jump- diffusion models of interest rate dynamics an appealing modeling choice to price interest rate contingent claims. However, exact closed form solutions for bond prices when interest rates follow a mixed jump-diffusion process have proved...

A recent article of Flesaker and Hughston introduces a one factor interest rate model called the rational lognormal model. This model has a lot to recommend it including guaranteed finite positive interest rates and analytic tractability. Consequently, it has received a lot of attention among...

The Federal Reserve adjusts the target federal funds rate discretely, causing discontinuity in short-term interest rates. However, unlike random Poisson jumps, these adjustments are well anticipated by the market. Within the affine term structure framework, we incorporate an anticipated jump...

A numerical technique based on the embedding technique proposed in [21, 33] for dynamic mean-variance (MV) optimization problems may yield spurious points, i.e. points which are not on the efficient frontier. In [27], it is shown that spurious points can be eliminated by examining the left upper...

This work analyzes and proposes solutions for subtle, but relevant, problems related to the EONIA curve calibration. The first issue examined is how to deal with jumps and turn-of-year effects. The second point is related to the problem caused by imperfect concatenation between spot starting OIS...

In this paper we analyse the impact of tenor basis in a multi-curve environment on the pricing of CMS instruments. CMS derivatives may be priced by means of a replication approach. Doing so the derivative is translated into a portfolio of Vanilla swaptions. On the one side multi-curve pricing...

An important step in the Financial Benchmarks Reform was taken on 13th September 2018, when the ECB Working Group on Euro Risk-Free Rates recommended the Euro Short-Term Rate €STR as the new benchmark rate for the euro area, to replace the Euro OverNight Index Average (EONIA) which will be...

This essay explores the link between the exponential probability density function and the present value function coupled with moment theory to derive important non probabilistic parameters from the Present value function in which are then used to derive a measure of the volatility of interest...