1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463088503321

Autore

Diebold Francis X. <1959->

Titolo

Yield curve modeling and forecasting [[electronic resource] ] : the dynamic Nelson-Siegel approach / / Francis X. Diebold and Glenn D. Rudebusch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2013

ISBN

1-299-05121-9

1-4008-4541-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

The Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes lectures

Altri autori (Persone)

RudebuschGlenn D. <1959->

Disciplina

332.63/2042

Soggetti

Bonds - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Preface -- Additional Acknowledgment -- 1. Facts, Factors, and Questions -- 2. Dynamic Nelson-Siegel -- 3. Arbitrage-Free Nelson-Siegel -- 4. Extensions -- 5. Macro-Finance -- 6. Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Two-Factor AFNS Calculations -- Appendix B: Details of AFNS Restrictions -- Appendix C: The AFGNS Yield-Adjustment Term -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Understanding the dynamic evolution of the yield curve is critical to many financial tasks, including pricing financial assets and their derivatives, managing financial risk, allocating portfolios, structuring fiscal debt, conducting monetary policy, and valuing capital goods. Unfortunately, most yield curve models tend to be theoretically rigorous but empirically disappointing, or empirically successful but theoretically lacking. In this book, Francis Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch propose two extensions of the classic yield curve model of Nelson and Siegel that are both theoretically rigorous and empirically successful. The first extension is the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model (DNS), while the second takes this dynamic version and makes it arbitrage-free (AFNS). Diebold and Rudebusch show how these two models are just slightly different implementations of a single unified



approach to dynamic yield curve modeling and forecasting. They emphasize both descriptive and efficient-markets aspects, they pay special attention to the links between the yield curve and macroeconomic fundamentals, and they show why DNS and AFNS are likely to remain of lasting appeal even as alternative arbitrage-free models are developed. Based on the Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures, Yield Curve Modeling and Forecasting contains essential tools with enhanced utility for academics, central banks, governments, and industry.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789539303321

Autore

Rustin Margaret

Titolo

Mirror to nature : drama, psychoanalysis and society / / by Margaret Rustin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2002

ISBN

1-78049-711-3

0-429-91629-9

0-429-90206-9

0-429-47729-5

1-283-12579-X

9786613125798

1-84940-360-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Tavistock Clinic series

Disciplina

616.8917

809/.93354

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and art

Psychoanalysis and literature

Theater - Psychological aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; PREFACE; Chapter 1.



Introduction: theatre, mind, and society; Chapter 2. Medea: love and violence split asunder; Chapter 3. Ion: an Athenian ""family romance""; Chapter 4. Shakespeare's Macbeth: a marital tragedy; Chapter 5. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: further meditations on marriage; Chapter 6. What Ibsen knew; Chapter 7. Chekhov: the pain of intimate relationships; Chapter 8. Oscar Wilde's glittering surface; Chapter 9. Arthur Miller: fragile masculinity in American society; Chapter 10. Beckett: dramas of psychic catastrophe

Chapter 11. Psychic spaces in Harold Pinter's workREFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by psychoanalytic practice can bring new ways of understanding classic works of drama. The argument of the book, set out in its introduction and exemplified in its discussion of individual dramatists and plays, is that western drama has represented the central tensions of societies as crises in the relationships of gender and generation, through dramatic explorations of the inner life of families. This is the common theme which links the book's analysis of Medea, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream amongst others. The value of this book lies in the originality of its analysis of individual plays, and the subtlety with which it brings psychoanalytic and sociological insights together.