... Zealand and those in Australia and the United States.The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interest rate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand and ... real interest rates.Figure 4 illustrates the sensitivity of our estimates of the real interest rate to the measure of inflation that is used to convertnominal interest rates into real interest rates. ... neutral real interest rate to decide whether interest rates arecontractionary to demand, but we will not necessarily beable to use it to answer whether interest rates will actuallycause demand to...
... interest rates and of credit default swaps (CDS’s). Moreover, themodel retains free dynamics parameters that can be used to calibrate optiondata, such as caps for the interestrate market and ... calibrations to the interest- rate market and to the creditmarket can be kept separate, thus realizing a superposition that is of practicalvalue. We discuss the impact of interest- rateand default-intensity ... term structure of in-terest rates and of credit default swaps (CDS’s). Additional parameters can be setso as to calibrate option data from the interestrate market and option data on thecredit...
... the (past and current) term structure of interest rates. We call this variable the change in the systematicfactor of the exposure to interestrate risk. The variables μ(1), ,μ(T ) are cross section-ally ... the cross- section, the interest margin is not muchdetermined by the exposure to interestrate risk.The results apply especially to the small and medium-sized banks in the Germansavings and ... 817–838.Yourougou, P. (1990). Interest- rate risk and the pricing of depository financial intermedi-ary common stock. Journal of Banking and Finance 14, 803–820.17 Banks’ exposure to interestrate risk, their...
... place.5 Table 6: Effect of InterestRate Surprise on Bank Stock Returns(By Usage of InterestRate Derivatives) Interest Rate SurpriseMedian Bank Level SlopeWith median interestrate derivatives position ... th es e data, interestrateswaps accountfor the vast bul k of the notional amount of interest rat e de r i vative contracts. Interestrate options,both exchange traded (ET) and those that ... Selected Interest Rates and the Associated InterestRate Surprises1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007012345678PercentTarget federal funds rate 5-year Treasury yieldDaily(a) S elect ed Interest...
... commercial and industrial loan portfolios. More specifically, we find that aggregate use of derivative instruments, in particular interest- rate options, interest- rate futures, and interest- rate forwards, ... and OFSW are eleven possible interactions between each type of derivative instruments. Among these interaction terms, O stands for option, F stands for futures, S stands for swaps, and W stands ... ratio and C&I loan 2Examples of this literature also include Hall (1993), Berger and Udell (1994), Haubrich and Wachtel (1993), Hancock and Wilcox (1994), Brinkman and Horvitz (1995), and...
... Toillustrate, the expected rate of inflation in February is computed as 10/12 of theexpected rate of inflation for this year and 2/12 of the expected rate of inflationfor next year. InterestRate ... growth, and exchange rate changes but not to inflation.We develop quantitative indicators of the Governing Council’sassessment of economic conditions to understand its interest rate decisions and ... 5 8Subtotal 11 7 Total: 18set interest rates at discrete levels, typically 0.25 percent apart, and because of interestrate smoothing. Let t, yt, àt, and tdenote(some measure of) ination,...
... interest rate pass-through, where retail lending rates are allowed to differ acrossregions. Following Christiano and Eichenbaum (1992), Christiano,Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005), and Ravenna and ... literature on the empirical study of interest rate pass-through, including deposit rate pass-through. Vol. 4 No. 3 Incomplete InterestRate Pass-Through 103under loan rate stabilization is greater ... (2006),1See, for example, Barth and Ramey (2001), Angeloni, Kashyap, and Mojon(2003), Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005), Chowdhury, Hoffmann, and Schabert (2006), and Ravenna and Walsh (2006).2Some...
... the spread between the interestrate on time deposits and the repo rates on corresponding maturities. Then we compute an average interbank deposit rate by weighting each rate with the amount ... nominal interestrate applied to overdrafts is typically the sum of a spread and the one-month policy rate. Current account contracts establish that changes in the policy rates are incorporated ... Japan (Aoki and Patrick, 1994), Germany (Harhoff and Körting, 1998) and Italy (Angelini et al.,1998) and in more market oriented ones such as the U.S. (Petersen and Rajan, 1994; Berger and Udell,...
... and discount repurchase rates, rates on euro–deutsche mark deposits with matu-rities of 1 day, and of 1, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months, and Frankfurt money-marketrates for 1 day and 1-, 3-, 6-, and ... Discount, and Market Interest Rates246810PercentJanuary 1985 January 1990 January 1995Lombard rate Discount rate 3-month interest rate ANTICIPATION IN CENTRAL BANK INTERESTRATE POLICY ... offi-cial interest rates by the U.S. Federal Reserve (for instance, Lombra and Torto,1977; Thornton, 1986 and 1994; Cook and Hahn, 1988 and 1989; and Radecki and Reinhart, 1994), the Bank of England...
... contracts. These other derivatives include forward rate agreements (FRAs), interestrate swaps, cross- currencyrate swaps, and foreign exchange andinterestrate options. Turnover in these instruments ... forwards, and swaps as the foreign exchange part of the survey. Trading in forward rate agreements (FRAs), currencyandinterestrate swaps, foreign exchange options, andinterestrate options ... Interest rate floor OTC option that pays the difference between the floor rateand a floating interest rate. Interest rate collar Combination of cap and floor. Interest rate corridor...
... Meetings, InterestRate Decisions, and Surprise MeasuresThe table contains interestrate decisions of the MPC for the period June 1997–October 2007. “Bloomberg Expectation” refers tothe interestrate ... higher than expected, and I(Δi<0) is an indicator function that takes the value of one on interestrate surprise days between 12:05 and 13:00 if the announced interest rate is lower than expected.Coefficient ... and Derivatives Market Activity in18Likewise, Clare and Courtenay (2001) find in favor of a significant impact onexchange andinterestrate volatility from UK monetary policy announcementsand...
... expectations, monetary and fiscalpolicies and the value of the U.S. dollar. Other interest rates, including bank prime lendingrates, home mortgage rates and corporate and municipal bond rates, tend to ... offorward rates, option prices may move sharplywhen current spot rates are unchanged. 14 Basic Strategieswith Interest Rate OptionsUsing options to implement interest rate strategies offers ... structure of interest rates and the very nature of the underlying instru-ment itself that investors must take into accountto fully understand the behavior of interest rate options and their differences...
... that currency markets are integrated. For instance, both Dumas and Solnik (1995) and De Santis and Gerard (1998) assume that currencyand equity markets are internationally integrated and impose ... summarizes and suggests further research. 2. Risk Premium and Liberalization Market liberalization can impact UIRP through two basic channels, the exchange rate and/ or nominal interest rates (and ... equities and foreign currency deposits. A fundamental relationship in international finance is interestrate parity. It states that when the domestic interestrate is less than the foreign interest...