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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300251503321

Autore

Mele Antonio

Titolo

The Price of Fixed Income Market Volatility / / by Antonio Mele, Yoshiki Obayashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-26523-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Springer Finance, , 2195-0687

Disciplina

332.632044

Soggetti

Social sciences - Mathematics

Macroeconomics

Finance

Mathematics in Business, Economics and Finance

Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

Financial Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Variance contracts: fixed income security design -- Appendix on security design and volatility indexing -- Interest rate swaps -- Appendix on interest rate swapmarkets -- Government bonds and time-deposits -- Appendix on government bonds and time depositmarkets -- Credit -- Appendix on credit markets -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

Fixed income volatility and equity volatility evolve heterogeneously over time, co-moving disproportionately during periods of global imbalances and each reacting to events of different nature. While the methodology for options-based "model-free" pricing of equity volatility has been known for some time, little is known about analogous methodologies for pricing various fixed income volatilities. This book fills this gap and provides a unified evaluation framework of fixed income volatility while dealing with disparate markets such as interest-rate swaps, government bonds, time-deposits and credit. It develops model-free, forward looking indexes of fixed-income volatility that match different quoting conventions across various markets, and



uncovers subtle yet important pitfalls arising from naïve superimpositions of the standard equity volatility methodology when pricing various fixed income volatilities. The ultimate goal of the authors´ efforts is to make interest rate volatility standardization a valuable channel of information, helping design signal generation and trading strategies, or, to mention another example, informing policy makers about how decisions and communication affect ongoing developments in fixed income volatility. More generally, this work will help inform the public about how uncertainty is perceived by key players in one of the most important segments in the whole capital market.