| Title | Modelling and forecasting international interest rate spreads: UK, Germany, Japan and the US |
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| Type | Journal article |
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| Authors | Gough, O., Nowman, K.B. and Van Dellen, S. |
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| Abstract | The interest rate spread is of importance to policy-makers and finance professionals in asset allocation and is a common measure of financial market stress. In this paper, we model and forecast the interest rate spreads for a number of countries using two well-known continuous time models and discrete time ARMA and ARFIMA models. We use monthly and weekly data which cover the recent global financial market crisis of 2007-2009 for Germany, Japan, UK and the USA. We find that the Merton's continuous-time model outperforms all other model specifications in terms of the mean of the forecast errors, MAPE and RMSE. |
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| Keywords | continuous time, Gaussian estimation, autoregressive models, interest rate spreads |
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| Journal | International Journal of Financial Engineering and Risk Management |
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| Journal citation | 1 (4), pp. 309-333 |
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| ISSN | 2049-0909 |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Publisher | InderScience |
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| Accepted author manuscript | |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJFERM.2014.065648 |
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| Publication dates |
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| Published | 28 Oct 2014 |
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