Empirical Evidence of Pricing Efficiency in Niche Markets
Description:
Unique and proprietary data of the illiquid, one-year non cancelable for three month Bermudan swaps (1Y NC 3M swaps) and one-year non callable for three months Bermudan CDs (1Y NC 3M CDs), provides evidence of market efficiency. The 1Y NC 3M swap and 1Y NC 3M CD markets efficiently reflected unexpected economic information. The 1Y NC 3M swaption premiums also followed the European one-year into three-month (1Y into 3M) swaption volatilities.
Swaption premiums were computed by pricing non-optio…
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Date:
May 2000
Creator:
Koch, Sandra Idelle