The purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, it describes zero-coupon yield curve estimates for Germany from September 1972 to February 1996 using a variety of curve-fitting procedures. Second, these estimates are tested for their information content regarding future inflation.

Der vorliegende Beitrag verfolgt ein zweifaches Ziel. Erstens beschreibt er Schätzungen der Zinsstrukturkurven rur Deutschland von September 1972 bis Februar 1996 mit Hilfe verschiedener Spezifikationen. Zweitens werden diese Schätzungen verwendet, um den Informationsgehalt der...

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt das neue Verfahren der Deutschen Bundesbank zur Schätzung von Zinsstrukturkurven vor. Sie beschreibt dessen methodische Grundlagen (Nelson und Siegel (1987) und Svensson (1994)) und einige grundlegende Konzepte, die ftir die Schätzung und Interpretation solcher...

This paper introduces the Deutsche Bundesbank's new procedure for estimating the term structure of interest rates. It describes the basic methodological approaches used (Nelson and Siegel (1987) and Svensson (1994)) and some fundamental concepts which are important for estimating and...

This article investigates the relationship between a debtor country's external financial indicators and the costs associated with the insurance of export credits to that country. For this purpose a stylized model of export credit insurance (ECI) is developed, the central idea being that ECI is...

The purpose of the present paper is twofold. First, it describes zero-coupon yield curve estimates for Germany from September 1972 to February 1996 using a variety of curve-fitting procedures. Second, these estimates are examined for their information content regarding future inflation. The...

The paper introduces the Deutsche Bundesbank's new procedure for estimating the term structure of interest rates. It describes the basic methodological approaches used (Nelson and Siegel, 1987, and Svensson, 1994) and some fundamental concepts which are important for estimating and interpreting...

The present paper studies dependencies between European stock markets when returns are unusually large, using daily data on stock market indices for Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Italy from 1973 to 2001. Dependency is measured by the conditional probability of an...

We investigate the impact of the 20 largest - in terms of insured losses - man-made or natural disasters on various insurance industry stock indices. We show via an event study that insurance sectors worldwide are quite resilient, in a market-value sense, to unexpected losses to capital: our...

This article studies dependencies between European stock markets when returns are unusually large 'extreme', using daily data on stock market indices for Germany, the UK, France, The Netherlands and Italy from 1973 to 2001. Dependency is measured by the conditional probability of an unusually...