... Spreads and Short- Term InterestRate Movements, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 28(1), February, pp 34-53 RUDEBUSCH, G (1995) Federal Reserve InterestRate Targeting, Rational Expectations, and ... decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty by C Fuss and P Vermeulen, April 2004 348 Financial openness and growth: Short- run gain, long -run pain? by M Fratzscher and M Bussiere, April 2004 ... spectral density matrix by G Camba-Mendez and G Kapetanios, April 2004 350 Exchange -rate policy and the zero bound on nominal interest rates by G Camba-Mendez and G Kapetanios, April 2004 ECB Working...
... arguments about exchangerate 2.1.1 Exchangerate concepts 2.1.2 Nominal exchangerateand real exchangerate 2.1.2.1 Bilateral nominal and real exchangerate 2.1.2.2 ... mentioned exchangerate in this study is quoted directly 2.1.2 Nominal exchangerateand real exchangerate 2.1.2.1 Bilateral nominal and real exchangerate The bilateral nominal exchangerate (NER) ... long -run and short- run relationships between exchangerateand trade balance are not consistent among studies, they indicate the positive impact of exchangerate on trade balance in long -run and...
... floating interestrateand the cap rateInterestrate floor OTC option that pays the difference between the floor rateand a floating interestrateInterestrate collar Combination of cap and floor Interest ... survey (FRAs, interestrate swaps, cross-currency swaps, and foreign exchangeandinterestrate options) averaged $659 billion, up percent See Chart Chart 2: Daily U.S FX andInterestRate Derivatives ... exchange (FX) spot, forwards, and swaps as the foreign exchange part of the survey Trading in forward rate agreements (FRAs), currency andinterestrate swaps, foreign exchange options, and interest...
... Sterling-Dollar Exchange Rate. ” Journal of Applied Econometrics (1): 1–13 Vol No Bank of England InterestRate Announcements 247 Hakkio, C S., and D K Pearce 1985 Exchange Rates and Discount Rate Changes.” ... current and future U.S and foreign short- term interest rates, andexchange rates in order to assess the effect of U.S monetary policy shocks on other variables in the SVARs Although the results for interest ... and the UK monetary policy process, see Bean (2001) and www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/ framework.htm These are published at www.bankofengland.co.uk Vol No Bank of England Interest Rate...
... fixed exchange rates (e.g., Malaysia after the Asian crisis) The scope for a successful interestrate defense” of a fixed exchangerate depends on the extent of the deviation from interestrateparity ... 341-360 34 Table Changes to InterestandExchangeRate Regimes in Liberalized Emerging Markets This table documents some of the changes to interestrateandexchangerate regimes around the official ... liberalization (see, e.g., Kim and Singal (2000), Bekaert and Harvey (1998) and Bekaert (1995)) Others such as Mexico and Thailand have been forced to abandon fixed exchangerate regimes in the post-liberalization...
... real interest rate; r∗ : equilibrium real interest rate; ew : trade-weighted real exchange rate; d : aggregate demand shock; l: long-term nominal interest rate; i : short- term nominal interest rate; ... scenario and the recession and deflation are signficantly dampened The exchangerate rule is abandoned in favor of the original interestrate rule when the interestrate implied by the interestrate ... additional effect on the nominal interest rate, and a negative interestrate prescribed by the interestrate rule cannot be implemented Orphanides and Wieland (2000) illustrate this point using recent...
... bank's interestrateand currency derivative contracts and the bank's interestrateandexchangerate risks Particularly noteworthy is the influence of currency derivatives on exchangerate betas ... between expected domestic interestrate changes and expected exchangerate changes, (c) the expected exchangerate volatility, and (d) the deviation from uncovered interestrateparity This indicates ... informationally efficient, changes in interest rates andexchange rates are likely to be largely unexpected In the second step, the interestrateandexchangerate betas generated in the first stage are...
... interest arbitrage acts to enforce InterestRateParity Describe the impact of each transaction on interest rates andexchange rates Provide one example using the data in Appendix B Covered interest ... nominal interestrate reflects a real interestrateand an anticipated rate of inflation The Fisher International Effect (Uncovered Interest Parity) states that the nominal interestrate differential ... Enterprises Application 1: InterestRateParityand One-Way Arbitrage Application 2: Credit Risk and Forward Contracts - To Buy or to Make? Application 3: InterestRateParityand the Country Risk...
... 50 and 51 of the December issue of RBI Bulletin Table 4: Indices of Real Effective ExchangeRate (REER) and Nominal Effective ExchangeRate (NEER) of the Indian Rupee (36-Currency Export and ... source for data on monthly exchange rates and prices for 36 currencies is the IFS of the International Monetary Fund2 With the IFS providing data on exchangerateand prices with a lag of at ... rupee relative to the currency i and vice versa, where e represents exchangerate of Indian rupee against the numeraire, SDR in indexed form and ei represents exchangerate of foreign currency ‘i’...
... Examples of InterestRate Hedging Strategies A wide variety of interestrate hedging strategies have been devised in the few years since interestrate 22 futures were first introduced Interestrate ... market prices, taking on a short position in interestrate futures produces an opposing risk Traders with short positions in interestrate futures profit when interest rates rise because the contracts ... additional risk in exchange for a higher expected rate of return Hedgers in the money market selectively buy and sell interestrate futures to fix future borrowing and lending rates when they perceive...
... Transmission of nominal exchangerate changes to export prices and trade flows and implications for exchangerate policy 23 2009 2009 Do we really know that flexible exchange rates facilitate current ... this standardized interestrate shock Currently, the standardized interestrate shock consists of two parts: a parallel upward shift of 130 basis points (bp) in the entire term structure and a ... intermediaries andinterestrate risk: II Financial Markets, Institutions and Instruments 15 (5), 225–272 16 Svensson, L E O (1994) Estimating and interpreting forward interest rates: Sweden 1992...
... Bank Stock Returns to Changes in Interest Rates (By Bank Characteristics and the Usage of InterestRate Derivatives) InterestRate Surprise Variable × InterestRate Surprise Level Swaps 0.212 ... Selected Interest Rates and the Associated InterestRate Surprises Percent Daily Target federal funds rate 5-year Treasury yield 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 (a) Selected Interest Rates Basis ... the notional amounts outstanding of interestrate swaps, futures, forwards, and the following interestrate options: over-the-counter (OTC) options written/purchased; and exchange- traded (ET) options...
... positions in interest- rate futures Finally, less than percent of the sample banks report having open positions in interest- rate swaps, interest- rate options, interest- rate forwards, and interest- rate ... use of derivative instruments, in particular interest- rate options, interest- rate futures, and interest- rate forwards, is associated with higher growth rates in C&I loans Robustness Check To check ... commercial and industrial loan portfolios More specifically, we find that aggregate use of derivative instruments, in particular interest- rate options, interestrate futures, and interest- rate forwards,...
... growth and the outlook for price stability By contrast, multivariate reaction functions control for economic activity, past interest rates, and the rate of depreciation of the exchangerateand ... level of the interestrateand the change in the interestrate are significant Rather than commenting on the regressions individually, in the interest of brevity we summarize the most interesting ... money growth between 2001 and 2003 was interpreted as largely reflecting increases in the demand for money that did not generate inflation risks 4.5 ExchangeRateand Repo Rate Finally, panel F shows...
... Mojon, and Valla (2005), the estimated degree of short- run (i.e., monthly) pass-through of changes in the market interest rates to the loan rate on short- term loans to firms varies from 25 (Sander and ... Mojon (2000), Heinemann and Sch¨ler (2002), Hofmann (2003), u and Sander and Kleimeier (2004) reported that the long -run pass-through of market rates to interest rates on short- term loans to firms ... loan rate, the current policy rate, and the previous loan rate. 16 It states that the relative weights on the expected loan rateand the previous loan rate increase as the sluggishness of loan rates...
... with robust standard errors in brackets The symbols *, **, and *** represent significance levels of 10%, 5%, and 1% respectively 32 Fig Interest rates on overdrafts and interbank rate in Italy ... 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 ... macroeconomic conditions (policy rates, real GDP, inflation, interestrate volatility), are captured by the constant α Following Albertazzi and Marchetti (2010) and Hale and Santos For a survey on...
... official 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 ... (1996), which concentrates more on the reaction of a wide variety of interest rates andexchange rates to overall changes in the Bundesbank’s Lombard, discount, and repurchase rates, and does not examine ... official rates January 1985 10 Percent Lombard rate January 1990 3-month interestrate Discount rate Figure Lombard, Discount, and Market Interest Rates January 1995 ANTICIPATION IN CENTRAL BANK INTEREST...
... dynamics, on a default-free interestrate context, see for example Avellaneda and Newman (1998), or Brigo and Mercurio (2001, 2001b) 3.1 CIR++ short -rate model We write the short -rate rt as the sum of ... Brigo and Mercurio (2001, 2001b) We will often use the integrated process, that is t t β t Λ(t) = λs ds, and also Y β (t) = ys ds and Ψ(t, β) = ψ(s, β)ds We take the short interest- rateand the ... intensity andinterest rates In this section we consider a model with stochastic intensity andinterest rates In this kind of models λ is a stochastic process but, conditional on the filtration generated...