This paper analyzes the price stabilizing properties of puttable and extendible bonds, their potential to help develop interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall, prices for puttable and extendible bonds fall by...

We investigate the theoretical and empirical difference between thestandard convexity adjustment and Forward Libor Model in a particular case oftwo-period Constant Maturity Swaps. Using daily data from 1991 to 1997, wesimulate the difference (spread) between the two-period CMS swap rates...

Credit Default Swaps (CDS) are in the process of becoming, liquid and extremelyinformative instruments of default risk. Yet, default swap market has severalnovel aspects that have not received much attention. In this paper we studyan aspect of CDS´s that relates to the prediction of financial...

Contingent Credit Lines (CCL) play an important role in the functioning of shortterm capital markets, yet their pricing and hedging have received little interest inthe theoretical finance literature. Risk management issues that arise in maintainingportfolios of CCL are almost completely...

Many developing economies are heavily exposed to commodity markets, leaving them vulnerable to the vagaries of international commodity prices. This paper examines the use of commodity options, including plain vanilla, risk reversal, and barrier options, to hedge such risks. It then proposes the...

This paper investigates the determinants of swap spreads. Compared with previous work done in this area, such as the seminal paper by Duffie and Singleton (1997), the paper includes daily credit spreads data in the time series framework. The issue is whether “liquidity” or “credit” (or...