CHAPTER 4
Interest Rate Modeling
Chapter 3 introduced the basic concepts of bond pricing and analysis. This chapter builds on those concepts and reviews the work conducted in those fields. Term-structure modeling is possibly the most heavily covered subject in the financial economics literature. A comprehensive summary is outside the scope of this book. This chapter, however, attempts to give a solid background that should allow interested readers to deepen their understanding by referring to the accessible texts listed in the References section. This chapter reviews the best-known interest rate models. The following one discusses some of the techniques used to fit a smooth yield curve to market-observed bond yields.

Basic Concepts

Term-structure ...

Get Fixed-Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.