Week 2 Flashcards
What are the main risk drivers of Bonds?
Intrest rate risk, Credit risk and liquidity risk
What does interest rate models (term structure model) establish?
The relationship between YTM (yield-to-maturity) and the time to maturity of the bond
What a person needs to do to compute the value of a security which is dependant on the Term sturcutre?
specify the dynamic of the interest rate process and apply arbitrage restrictions
What is a stochastic process?
Collection of random variables tha evolve over time and space
Uncertanity is modeled as?
Stochastic process
What are the Poisson process and Borwnian motion fundementals of?
Continuous time stochastic procces
What continuous time mean?
Future moments depends on present moments