Down Scaling Interest in Interest Rate

Investigating the Relationship between the Facility Interest Rate and the Bank Deposit Interest Rate in Iran

The facility interest rate is one of the most important macroeconomic variables. The bank facility interest rate is associated with other macro-economic variables, one of which is the bank deposit interest rate. Using the time series data of the 1973-2017 period and the simultaneous equation system, the researchers estimated four equations using the three-stage least squares method.The result o...

Making Interest-free Banking System More Efficient with Regards to Interest Rate

Interest Rate Risk

Interest-Rate Models

In this article we will describe some of the main developments in interest-rate modelling since Black & Scholes’ (1973) and Merton’s (1973) original articles on the pricing of equity derivatives. In particular, we will focus on continuoustime, arbitrage-free models for the full term structure of interest rates. Other models which model a limited number of key interest rates or which operate in ...

Optimal Interest-Rate Rules

To be added.] ∗This is a revision of the text delivered by the second author as the Jacob Marschak Lecture at the 2001 Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan, July 21, 2001. We thank Julio Rotemberg and Lars Svensson for helpful discussions, and the National Science Foundation, through a grant to the NBER, for research support. Views expressed are those of the authors and d...