Sökning: "Swap spread"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Swap spread.
1. Empirical studies of financial asset returns
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims at understanding differences in rates of returns on financial assets, both in the cross-section and over time. It contains four chapters. The first paper is "Non-separable preferences and risk aversion: Results from the UK". LÄS MER
2. Essays on Corporate Growth and Corporate Credit Risk
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation contributes to research on financial economics. It consists of an overall introduction and three independent papers. The first paper, “A Theory of Gazelle Growth: Competition, Venture Capital Finance, and Policy,” examines how young fast-growing small firms, called gazelles, develop. LÄS MER
3. Essays on term structure and monetary policy
Sammanfattning : This dissertation treats two different themes. The first, addressed in Chapter 1, regards the pricing of interest rate swaps. The second, studied in the remaining two chapters, regards the implications of monetary policy for the term structure of interest rates. LÄS MER
4. Insurance: solvency and valuation
Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns mathematical and statistical concepts useful to assess an insurer's risk of insolvency. We study company internal claims payment data and publicly available market data with the aim of estimating (the right tail of) the insurer's aggregate loss distribution. LÄS MER
5. Term structure estimation based on a generalized optimization framework
Sammanfattning : The current work is devoted to estimating the term structure of interest rates based on a generalized optimization framework. To x the ideas of the subject, we introduce representations of the term structure as they are used in nance: yield curve, discount curve and forward rate curve. LÄS MER