The Long Term Equilibrium Interest Rate and Risk Premiums Under Uncertainty

Irreversible capital accumulation under interest rate uncertainty

We consider the optimal sequential irreversible investment policy of a value maximizing firm facing decreasing returns to scale and interest rate uncertainty. We characterize the optimal accumulation policy and its value for a broad class of interest rate models by focusing on the marginal investment decision and deriving the marginal value of capital. We also state a set of conditions under wh...

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Term Structure of Interest Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Uncertainty ∗

We propose a new model of the yield curve to capture both the dynamics of their conditional mean and the term structure of interest rate volatilities. The new class of affine term structure models exhibits multiple unpriced stochastic volatility factors without imposing constraints on the conditional mean of yields. The common movement in the volatilities extracted from the model provides a new...

Modeling Long - Term Policy Under Uncertainty

How Do the Interest Rate and the Inflation Rate Affect the Non-life Insurance Premiums?

This paper proposes an original framework based on nonlinear panel data models to study the empirical influence of the interest rate and the inflation rate on the non-life insurance premiums for fourteen developed countries over the period 1965-2008. More specifically, we apply the panel smooth transition error correction model which takes into account both the short and long-run effects of cha...