Arbeitspapier

Term Structure of Interest Rates. Emergence of Power Laws and Scaling Laws

The technique of Pad\'e Approximants, introduced in a previous work, is applied to extended recent data on the distribution of variations of interest rates compiled by the Federal Reserve System in the US. It is shown that new power laws and new scaling laws emerge for any maturity not only as a function of the Lag but also as a function of the average inital rate. This is especially true for the one year maturity where critical forms and critical exponents are obtained. This suggests future work in the direction of constructing a theory of variations of interest rates at a more ''microscopic'' level.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 5/2003

Classification
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought: Quantitative and Mathematical
Model Construction and Estimation
Subject
Interest rates scaling laws

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Alderweireld, Thomas
Nuyts, Jean
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
(where)
Brussels
(when)
2003

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Alderweireld, Thomas
  • Nuyts, Jean
  • Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)

Time of origin

  • 2003

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