Unconventional monetary policies have now been part of the toolkit of developed economy central banks for over a decade. The question of how their effects have changed over time is therefore an important one. This paper studies the impact of multiple forms of monetary policy surprise for the...

We consider an extension of the Hull-White short rate model which incorporates smile and skew, effectively through a quadratic dependence of the diffusion on the short rate. We derive an asymptotic representation of the pricing kernel for this new model in semi-analytic form, using this to...

This study examines the effect of monetary policy rate (MPR) on market interest rates in Nigeria. For parsimony, we develop two indexes called the short-term in- terest rate (SINT) and Lending interest rate (LINT) to represent deposit and lending rates respectively. The nonlinear autoregressive...

This work investigates and compares the total risk attributable to holding and operating companies, using data from the United States. By proxying overall risk by the option-adjusted spread on corporate bonds, we hypothesize that operating companies face a higher risk. Our data were obtained...