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Interest rate risk estimation: a new duration-based approach

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  • Emanuele Bajo
  • Massimiliano Barbi
  • David Hillier

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Duration is widely used by fixed income managers to proxy the interest rate risk of their assets and liabilities. However, it is well known that the convexity of the price-yield relationship introduces approximation errors that grow with changes in yield. In this article we suggest a new approach, ‘discrete duration’, which significantly improves upon the accuracy of traditional duration methods and achieves a level of accuracy close to the more complex ‘duration-plus-convexity’ measure. In particular, discrete duration performs particularly well for long dated and low coupon rate bonds where the estimation error is impressively close to zero.

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  • Emanuele Bajo & Massimiliano Barbi & David Hillier, 2013. "Interest rate risk estimation: a new duration-based approach," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(19), pages 2697-2704, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:45:y:2013:i:19:p:2697-2704
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.667552
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    1. Svensson, Lars E O, 1994. "Estimating and Interpreting Forward Interest Rates: Sweden 1992-4," CEPR Discussion Papers 1051, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    1. Zhongliang Tuo, 2013. "Hedging Against the Interest-rate Risk by Measuring the Yield-curve Movement," Papers 1312.6841, arXiv.org.
    2. Dierkes, Thomas & Ortmann, Karl Michael, 2015. "On the efficient utilisation of duration," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 29-37.

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