Title | Estimating the dynamics of interest rates in the Japanese economy |
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Authors | Nowman, K.B. and Ñíguez, T.M. |
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Type | Conference paper |
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Abstract | This paper analyses the performance of the Yu and Phillips (2001) estimation method for the case of the Japanese economy. This new parametric technique is based on the Dambis, Durbin-Schwarz theorem to extract an exact Gaussian discrete model of a continuous-time diffusion process for the interest rate. We use the new approach together with Nowman's (1997) method to estimate different specifications for a varied data set, including interbank and T-bill rates with different maturities and frequencies. Our results show that the Yu-Phillips procedure provides estimates in line with their Monte Carlo results in most of the cases. |
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Keywords | Conditional volatility, continuous time diffusion, interest rates, Monte Carlo experiment, quasi-maximum likelihood |
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Year | 2007 |
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Conference | Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics |
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Completed | 2007 |
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