Search for dissertations about: "Interest rate volatility"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words Interest rate volatility.
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1. Financial Volatility and Time-Varying Risk Premia
Abstract : This thesis consists of four empirical essays, all dealing with return volatility of financial assets and/or time-varying risk premia. In the first essay, Changing Risk Premia: Evidence from a Small Open Economy, the relation between risk and return is investigated for Swedish stocks. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Financial Market Volatility
Abstract : This thesis examines the volatility in the equity and short-term interest-rate markets, and the spillover from the short term interest rate market to the equity market. It consists of three papers and focuses on adapting and proposing models for the estimation and forecasting of financial market volatility. READ MORE
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3. Multidimensional Markov-Functional and Stochastic Volatiliy Interest Rate Modelling
Abstract : This thesis consists of three papers in the area of interest rate derivatives modelling. The pricing and hedging of (exotic) interest rate derivatives is one of the most demanding and complex problems in option pricing theory and is of great practical importance in the market. READ MORE
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4. Time Varying Parameters in Exchange Rate Models
Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers on different aspects of parametervariation in some common exchange rate models.The first paper investigates the stability in the real exchange rate, witch is equivalent to purchasing power parity (PPP). READ MORE
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5. Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Exchange Rate Policy
Abstract : Essay 1 (with Annika Alexius) uses a structural VAR model to study the role of floating exchange rates for five "small open economies" with inflation targets. We show that only in Sweden and Canada does the nominal exchange rate behave in a stabilizing way. Most exchange rate movements are responses to non-fundamental shocks. READ MORE