This article is based on the first chapter of the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of California at Berkeley. Thanks are due to the dissertation committee members: Gerard Gennotte, Hayne Leland, Pravin Varaiya, and especially, David Modest. Funding from the Norwegian Council for Rese
A new look at interest rate futures contracts
โ Scribed by Ren-Raw Chen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 491 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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โฆ Synopsis
INTEREST RATE FUTURES
/ 545 work with. Results generated by simulations suggest that unless investors are highly risk averse, discrete futures prices are little different from the continuous ones, implying that either the Chen (1992) or the Cox et al. (1981) futures model should work well for real contracts.
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