Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Pricing of Equity Options written by Sadayuki Ono and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Nisha Aroskar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation contributes to the study of the term structure of interest rates by addressing some of the gaps in this literature. The term structure is an important channel of monetary transmission. It also contains information about the intertemporal choices made by economic agents. The expectations Hypothesis is the primary explanation in economics that links short term interest rates to long term interest rates. In the first essay I extend the literature by examining the expectations hypothesis in the newly developed financial markets. I find that the expectations theory is not rejected in these markets. This evidence is in sharp contrast to the evidence earlier presented for industrialized countries. Further, contrary to the simple expectations theory, the term premium has high persistence, which is reflected in significantly autoregressive error terms. The evidence also supports the longstanding suggestion that the term premium could be related to the liquidity in the economy. The next essay investigates the forecasting ability of the term spread for future output growth. There appears to be a sharp decline in the predictive power of the term spread in countries that have adopted monetary policy with a stronger response to inflation. To explore the underlying economic reasons for these findings, I explicitly model the information content of the term spread for future output growth based on a structural model. Model calibrations suggest that the forecasting ability of the term spread changes with a change in the persistence and the variance of the underlying economic shocks and in the monetary policy preferences. The last essay focuses on the term structure as a link between short term and long term interest rates in macroeconomic models. I integrate the New Keynesian model and the model of the term structure based on the Intertemporal Consumption Asset Pricing Model. This is a more plausible description of the economy compared to the earlier models. In this model, output responds to an interest rate that includes a time varying term premium which, in turn is associated with economic agents expectations about the future economic variables. Empirical results provide confidence for future research in this direction.

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Wei Shi and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates and Long Run Variance of Stock Returns written by Ting Wu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In Chapter 1, I propose a term structure model based on risk-sensitive preferences. Following Hansen and Sargent (2008), I model a risk-sensitive consumer who shows aversion to uncertainties, and evaluates his utility using the max-min utility function. He considers three types of uncertainties: (a) uncertainty of future states; (b) uncertainty about current states; and (c) uncertainty about the model generating the data. I use a parameter to represent his aversion to the each uncertainty. The max-min utility function implies multiplicative adjustments to the standard pricing kernel.

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Lance Alexander Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates Taxes and Equilibrium Asset Pricing written by Brent Jonathan Lekvin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Term Structure of Interbank Interest Rates written by Manuel Moreno and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Market Efficiency and Option Pricing with Gaussian Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Yimin Shih and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Derivatives written by Don M. Chance and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the updated second edition of Don Chance’s well-received Essays in Derivatives, the author once again keeps derivatives simple enough for the beginner, but offers enough in-depth information to satisfy even the most experienced investor. This book provides up-to-date and detailed coverage of various financial products related to derivatives and contains completely new chapters covering subjects that include why derivatives are used, forward and futures pricing, operational risk, and best practices.

Download or read book Essays in option pricing and interest rate models written by Irina Slinko and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Thong Huy Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Term Structure of Interest Rates Yield Curve Residuals and the Consistent Pricing of Interest Rate Derivatives written by Massoud Heidari and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic term structure models price interest rate options based on the model-implied fair values of the yield curve, ignoring any pricing residuals on the yield curve that are either from model approximations or market imperfections. In contrast, option pricing in practice often takes the market observed yield curve as given and focuses exclusively on the specification of the volatility structure of forward rates. Thus, if any errors exist on the observed yield curve, they will be carried over permanently. In this paper, we propose an m+n model structure that bridges the gap between the two approaches and consistently prices both interest rates and interest rate options. The first m factors capture the systematic movement of the yield curve, whereas the latter n factors capture the impacts of the yield curve residuals on option pricing. We estimate a 3+3 Gaussian affine example using eight years of data on U.S. dollar LIBOR, swap rates, and interest rate caps. The model performs well in pricing both interest rates and interest rate caps. Furthermore, estimation shows that small residuals on the yield curve can have large impacts on pricing interest rate caps. Under the estimated model, the three yield curve factors explain over 99 percent of the variation on the yield curve, but account for less than 50 percent of the variation on cap implied volatilities. Incorporating the three residual factors improves the explained variance on cap implied volatility to over 99 percent.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Hyoung-Seok Lim and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Three chapters focus on the term structure of interest rates. Most Central Banks have recently employed the short term interest rate as a monetary policy instrument in the form of either a Taylor rule or Inflation Targeting. Under this framework, the term structure of interest rates play an important role in determining the effectiveness of monetary policy because economic decisions are based on long-term interest rates. The first two chapters discuss the role of the term structure of interest rates in explaining the behavior of exchange rates. Chapter 1 constructs a theoretical model and Chapter 2 provides an empirical result to supporting this theoretical prediction. Chapter 3 directly estimates the term structure of interest rates from Korean data. The estimated yield curves are used to extract market expectations about the future interest rates path which is essential for forward-looking monetary policy.

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Basma Z. Bekdache and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Term Structure of the Interest Rates written by Mehmet Pasaogullari and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates written by Rajna Gibson and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2010 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modeling the Term Structure of Interest Rates provides a comprehensive review of the continuous-time modeling techniques of the term structure applicable to value and hedge default-free bonds and other interest rate derivatives.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Term Structure written by Robin James Brenner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: