The Forecast Performance of Treasury Bond Futures Contracts
โ Scribed by Shantaram P. Hegde
- Book ID
- 111105307
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 648 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0306-686X
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
his study provides an ex ante and expost test of market efficiency for the T options on Treasury bond futures contracts traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. All option and future contract price changes are examined from market inception, in October 1982, through the middle of June 1983 for violatio
ommodity futures contracts have frequently allowed multiple varieties of a C commodity to be delivered . In some cases, there are objective measures of the differences in the varieties deliverable. In other cases, the exchange sets up a formula for value in delivery. These formulas may penalize some
## Futures Market Destabilize the Treasury Bond Cash Market? Gary A. Bortz I. INTRODUCTION everal market professionals and economists have suggested that financial fu-S tures markets may be contributing to the volatility of interest rates. The most prevalent argument is that futures markets are i
wning a security with a guaranteed future sale price and date is (almost) 0 equivalent to a short-term investment extending to the sale date. Yet, in the Treasury bond futures market the prices seem too low to provide a fair rate of return to those who short T-bond futures. That is, the short term i