... returns in the face of announced interestrate changes: Stiglitz and Weiss (1981) Optimal InterestRate Theory and Gordon (1962) Dividend Valuation Theory as well as Ho and Saunders (1981) theory ... return on a security, Rf is the risk-free rate, i is the risk of the asset where (Rm-Rf) is the market risk premium and Rm the market rate of return In practice theinterestrate on secure debt securities, ... theinterestrate sensitivity Stone's work was built on and further enhanced by Lynge and Zumwalt (1980) who found that interestrate sensitivity varied depending on the term of interest rates,...
... in the deviation from interestrate parity Define theFisherEffectandtheFisher International Effect (Uncovered Interest Parity) How are these effects similar and how are they different? The ... different? TheFisherEffect states that the nominal interestrate reflects a real interestrateand an anticipated rate of inflation TheFisher International Effect (Uncovered Interest Parity) ... that the nominal interestrate differential between two countries reflects the anticipated rate of currency depreciation of theexchangerateThe two Fisher effects are similar in that they both...
... the bank’s own funds Ei (t) (which explains the multiplication with Ei (t) andthe division by 130) The variable ki (t) states the ratio of the bank’s interestrate exposure to theinterestrate ... case especially the shape of the (past and current) term structure of interest rates We call this variable the change in the systematic factor of the exposure to interestrate risk The variables ... in the cross-section, theinterest margin is not much determined by the exposure to interestrate risk The results apply especially to the small and medium-sized banks in the German savings and...
... with a monetary tightening Finally, the lagged level of theinterestrateandthe change in theinterestrate are significant Rather than commenting on the regressions individually, in theinterest ... past interest rates, andtherate of depreciation of theexchangerateand are therefore more informative about the role of money in the Governing Council’s conduct of monetary policy Assessing the ... rate of appreciation, andthe lagged level (and the lagged change) of the repo rate Below we estimate the model, reporting the parameter estimates, the value of the likelihood function, and the...
... pays the difference between a floating interestrateandthe cap rateInterestrate floor OTC option that pays the difference between the floor rateand a floating interestrateInterestrate ... 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, andinterest ... specific date at a rate agreed upon at the time of the conclusion of the contract (the short leg), and a reverse exchange of the same two currencies at a date further in the future at a rate (generally...
... of the interest- rate part to interest- rate data and of the intensity part to credit market data Indeed, in the separable case the credit derivatives desk might ask for the α parameters andthe ... that if ρ = and ψ(·; β) is selected according to (7), then theprice of the CDS underthe stochastic intensity model λ is the same price obtained under deterministic intensity γ mkt and is given ... being the instantaneous short interestrate We denote by CDS(t, T , T, Rf , Z) theprice at time t of the above CDS The pricing formula for this product depends on the assumptions on interest- rate...
... 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 ... (1) where Δet is the change in the logarithm of theexchangerate at time t The mean of theexchangerate returns process, μ, the autocorrelation coefficient, ρ, andthe variance of the innovation, ... on the MPC andthe 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...
... regarding the structure of interest rates andthe very nature of the underlying instrument itself that investors must take into account to fully understand the behavior of interestrate options and their ... the holder to profit if rates decline because as 5-year interest rates fall, so does the level of FVX As interest rates decline andthe level of the 5-year underlying declines, the value of the ... difference between the premium originally paid when the option was purchased andthe premium received upon the sale of the option 10 InterestRate Movement and Option Premium InterestRate Options...
... is the implementation of 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 ... At the beginning of the month a U.S dollar is converted to local currency at the spot exchangerate against the U.S dollar and deposited in the country of reference At the end of the month the ... (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...
... between the loan and deposit rates are the extent of competition in the markets, theinterestrate risk to which the bank is exposed, the degree of risk aversion of the bank management andthe size ... in monetary policy rates On the other hand, the variation of banking-related measures over theinterestrate cycle is rewarding on its own Our presumptions follow the observation from theinterest ... factors (interest rates for outstanding amounts and new business on both sides of the balance sheet, the level andthe structure of interest- earning assets and interest- bearing liabilities), further...
... implicitly assumes that there is a corresponding neutral level for theexchange rate, such that theexchangerate neither stimulates nor contracts demand, and that theexchangerate is at this neutral ... influenced the level of the NRR over The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interestrate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand andthe United States the 1990s ... to consumption, the higher theinterestrate they will require in fall, as the cost of borrowing increases, since fewer order to induce them to save, andthe further to the left the investment...
... countries under EMU than on average over the 1990s (this is not the case in Ireland andthe Netherlands for the former, and Finland for the latter) The picture is less clear in the case of mortgages and ... In the short run, changes in retail bank rates depend on changes in the MMR and in the BR and on the deviation from the long-run equilibrium relationship between the retail bank interestrateand ... andthe Netherlands For the latter, it goes up in Spain, Ireland, Italy, down in Belgium and Germany However, it could be the case that the term CC captures a trend in the level of the bank rate...
... on the share of variable interestrate contracts, the frequency of theinterestrate variations defined in the contract andthe correlation of the MMR with the reference interestrate used in the ... other countries 3.2 Recent evidence on the reference maturity andthe effective interestrate This section briefly outlines the determinants of the effective interestrate which applies to the ... value of the future stream of dividends The discount rate used in the computation of the present value is, again, the long-term interestrateThe lower the level of long-term interest rates, the higher...
... limited since the late 1980s, when the savings and loan crisis brought the issue of interest- rate risk to the fore Understanding the systematic effects of changes in interest- rateand credit risks ... liabilities and their capacity to price changes in risks effectively In addition, the credit cycle andthe strength of new loan demand determine the magnitude of theeffect of interest- rate shocks ... for the change in short-term interest rates (ST_DUMMY1) that controls for the change in the interest- rate environment Coefficients for interest- rate volatility andthe short-term interest- rate...
... portfolios In other words, the analysis on the one hand has the drawback that noise is not 'averaged out', but on the other hand allows the evaluation of interestrate risk on the micro level ... sensitivity to interestrate innovations The hypothesis that the interest- rate sensitivity is uniform across banks was also rejected suggesting that theinterestrateeffect is bank specific Given the rejection ... -11.7* * The mean and standard deviation correspond to the sample values The numbers in the parentheses stand for the t-ratios The Sharpe ratio is calculated by diving the sample mean by the sample...
... verges of interest rtes insted of theinterest rtes themselvesF 12 As the methods Interest income of the two strategies S(12) and S(60) and Year dummies have no cross sectional variation, their ... lulte the net interest inome for the yer PHHV nd the yer PHHWD respetivelyF hese interest mrgins re ompred with theinterest mrgin in the se of no interest shokD the sis senrioD ... the yield urveD ie the shortEterm rtes go up shrply nd the longEterm rtes rely moveD hs the most negtive impt on the nk9s net interest inome in the yer fter the shok nd in the...
... of the relationship between the MPC’s own forecasts andtheinterestrate decisions of the MPC on the official Bank RateThe data used are the historical forecasts for British CPI inflation and ... level Despite variations of the responses across the conditional distribution of both the MPC interestrate decisions andthe member interestrate average, these interestrate reactions are not significantly ... uncertain andthe uncertainties might affect theinterestrate decisions, they should be incorporated into the estimation model This study therefore focuses on the impact of forecast uncertainty on the...
... in the mean real rateandthe downward bias in the variability of the real rate depending on the level of the nominal equilibrium rate of interestThe downward bias in the variability of the ... in Coenen and Wieland (2002)) 3.1 Recession, Deflation andthe Zero -Interest- Rate Bound The Zero -Interest- Rate Bound Under normal circumstances, when the short-term nominal interestrate is well ... NO 218 THE ZERO -INTEREST- RATE BOUND ANDTHE ROLE OF THEEXCHANGERATE FOR MONETARY POLICY IN JAPAN * BY GÜNTER COENEN AND VOLKER WIELAND ** MARCH 2003 * Prepared for the “Conference on the tenth...
... 218 The zero -interest- rate bound andthe role of theexchangerate for monetary policy in Japan” by G Coenen and V Wieland, March 2003 219 “Extra-euro area manufacturing import prices andexchange ... 5.3 sw ap Furthermore, the changes in the yields and in the swap spreads for both Portugal and Germany, were not directly related to the change in the yield and in the swap spread in the leading ... of theinterestrate swap spreads theinterestrate swap spread in the US, a measure of bond market liquidity, a measure of the stock market risk/volatility, the slope of the yield curve in the...
... correlation between the actual real interestrateandthe real interestrate gap are high and their standard deviations are roughly identical In other words, the variation in the real interestrate is not ... on the real interestrate gap, dened as the dierence between the real short term interestrateand estimates of the natural real interest, as an indicator of themonetary policy stance Rather, ... defined as the difference between the real short term interestrateand estimates of the natural real interestrate In addition, the natural real interestrate is linked to the potential growth rate...