Central Bank Policy Impacts on the Distribution of State Prices for Future Interest Rates, 2003–2022
Douglas T. Breeden and Robert H. Litzenberger
The Journal of Fixed Income 30th Anniversary Special Issue 2022, jfi.2022.1.145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2022.1.145
Douglas T. Breeden
is the William W. Priest Professor of Finance in the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in Durham, NC
Robert H. Litzenberger
is the Edward Hopkinson Professor of Investment Banking Emeritus in the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA
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Vol. 32, Issue 3
Winter 2023
Central Bank Policy Impacts on the Distribution of State Prices for Future Interest Rates, 2003–2022
Douglas T. Breeden, Robert H. Litzenberger
The Journal of Fixed Income Sep 2022, jfi.2022.1.145; DOI: 10.3905/jfi.2022.1.145
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- RESULT 1: TRIANGLES, TRAPEZOIDS AND TAIL SPREADS: DECOMPOSING OPTION PAYOFFS
- RESULT 2: PRICES OF BUTTERFLY TRIANGULAR PAYOFFS EQUAL “DIGITAL OPTION” PRICES
- RESULT 3: STATE PRICES HAVE BIASES AS ESTIMATES OF “TRUE PROBABILITIES”
- RESULT 4: CHANGING REAL BETAS FOR NOMINAL BONDS 1962–2021 MEANS CHANGING BIASES OF INTEREST RATE STATE PRICES AS FORECASTS OF PROBABILITIES
- RESULT 5: US CENTRAL BANK POLICY IMPACTS ON INTEREST RATE INSURANCE PRICES
- 2010–2013: ECB POLICY IMPACTS IN THE EUROPEAN SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS
- 2015–2019: YELLEN FED EXECUTES LIFTOFF. ECB QE
- 2020–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, BRIEF HUGE GLOBAL RECESSIONS, AND RECOVERY
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