Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=54073#.VOBeJSzQrzE Author(s) Vincent Brousseau 1 , Alain Durré 2 Affiliation(s) 1 Visiting Scholar at Lille 2-Skema Management Research Center-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (E.A. 4112), Lille, France . 2 IéSEG-School of Management (Lille Catholic University) and LEM-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (U.M.R. 8179), Paris, France . ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a new methodology to estimate the volatility of interest rates in the euro area money market. In particular, our approach aims at avoiding the limitations of market implied volatilities, i.e. the dependency on arbitrary choices in terms of maturity and frequencies and/or of other factors like credit and liquidity risks. The measure is constructed as the implied instantaneous volatility of a consol bond that would be priced on the EONIA swap curve over the sampl...
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