Questions tagged [inflation]
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Paying Filipino workers in USD. What should the inflation rate be? [migrated]
I'm not sure where to ask and, since this is not Personal Finance, I'm gonna ask it here.
Here's my situation: for the past 2 years, I hired and trained a team of Filipino workers. They are paid in ...
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Impact on Price of Securities
I was wondering if there are any papers on CPI announcements' impact on the price of certain securities that are tied to inflation rates. I know there are derivatives for inflation rate, but I was ...
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Inflation Lag Bond Valuation
Question:
On 1st March 2006 a government issued a large tranche of an index-linked bond having
a term of 6 years. Coupons of 4% p.a. were payable half-yearly in arrears and the bond
was redeemed at ...
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How does inflation impact stock returns? Academic examples
For a literature survey in my university class, I have been asked the question "How does inflation impact stock returns?".
After reading some informal articles (in periodicals/ the general internet), ...
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Inflation options volatility data
I am currently interested in the vega hedging of inflation derivatives. Are there any specific market practices in this field?
Furthermore, I would like to know if the liquidity is sufficicent to ...
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What is the impact of inflationary expectation on stock price?
It is well known that, at least theoretically, stock prices are expected to rise in an inflationary environment. Now, my question is that does the same go for inflationary expectations; for example if ...
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Relationship between BBB credit spreads and rising interest rates
A stylized fact in markets seems to be that there is a negative correlation between interest rates and corporate spreads - as interest rates rise, spreads tend to tighten and vice versa.
I'm ...
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Data for daily real interest rates
In a high frequency model i would like to add daily real interest rates (preferably short-term) as a variable.
However, I cannot seem to find either daily CPI data, or daily real interest rates (...
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What is the formula for the forward price of a inflation linked bond assuming there are coupons in the interim period and the deal is collateralised?
t2=forward settlement date
P=Spot clean price
AI0=Spot accrued interest
r=repo rate
t1=coupon payment date
AIt2= accrued interest of the forward settlement date
t0= now
Proceeds Method:
F(t2)=(...
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How to calculate the notional value of an interest rate inflation swap
I am looking at an FpML example of an inflation swap, from Investopedia it refers to a fixed and floating rate multiplied by a Principal Notional Amount however, in the FpML example there is no ...
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Does MV of IRS depend on inflation?
Question: At time=0 company A enters an 3y interest rate swap with a bank, where A recieves floating and pays fixed. After 1y, at t=1, the inflation changes from 1% to 3% does this affect the MV of ...
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convexity adjustment in YOY inflation swap , compared with TRS, and considering autocorrelation
a YOY inflation swaplet payoff is S2/S1 - 1 , where Si is the CPI at time i
and a TRS (total return swaplet) asset leg payoff is also the same except the underlying is an asset.
So it seems to me ...
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Pricing models for inflation-linked bonds?
I need to price an inflation-linked bond issued by italian government.
Which models are indicated for this bond?
I think I can price bond as a FRN plus an option on inflation rate.
But, first ...
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How can I measure wealth gain (loss) due to inequality?
As time passes, outside of inflation, the buying power of an individual changes relative to their peers wealth.
How can I measure the effect wealth inequality has relative to one's savings?
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Brazilian break even inflation curves
Brazil has had historically two sets of inflation bonds, the NTN-B and NTN-C series each with a different inflation index. The NTN-C is no longer issued.
When creating historical break even ...
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Measuring Medium-term Inflation expectations and real interest rate from OIS and Inflation Swaps
In this speech by Mario Draghi, in section '2:Responding to high unemployment', and subsection 'Boosting aggregate demand', Mario states «Over the month of August financial markets have indicated that ...
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Computing the Coefficients for the Unemployment, Inflation, Trade Balance Equation
Based on S. Nickell's theory on how to relate trade deficit, unemployment, inflation, I tried to fit the data to the formula Nickell presents,
$$ [ \alpha_1 + \delta_1 \alpha_{12}]u + \alpha_2 \...
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What is the “inflation delta” of an option?
I'm preparing a report on the different Greeks used in risk measurement, and my boss mentioned the inflation delta within the first-order Greeks (and the Inflation Vega, but I guess that if I figure ...
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Trading with Inflation, Unemployment, Trade Deficit Information
I am trying to create a model for inflation for trading purposes. In his book The Market: Practice and Policy S. Nickell presents a model that relates unemployment, inflation and trade deficit. His ...
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How to calculate interest rate in this problem?
Problem: A loan of £12,000 is issued and is repaid in instalments of £300 at the end of each month for 4
years. Calculate the effective annual rate of interest for this loan.
What I tried-
But ...
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How do we include inflation in our calculations? [closed]
How do we include inflation in our compound interest calculations?
E.g. if we have current principal of 1000$ and the interest rate is 3% after 10 years we have <...
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How to get real interest rate from Nominal spot rates?
I have the nominal spot rates. Based on the Fisher equation , how to get the real interest rate ($r$) and the "expected inflation" ($\pi$) ?
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CVA for an inflation linked swap
I am trying to value an inflation linked swap and wish to calculate the associated CVA and DVA.
I think the best way to approach this would be via a simulation.
Suppose I wish to calculate CVA over ...
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How do you deal with Inflation lag in a MC simulation?
Consider the UK RPI index. This index is published every month around the 15th (give or take a few days). The publication refers to the RPI index of the month before, so there is a lag of a few weeks ...
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Calculate single cashflow at maturity for a Total Return Inflation swap (zero coupon)
I'm a newbie to the world of swaps.
If I have a Total Return Inflation Swap (Receive CPI, Pay Fixed Zero Coupon)
Based on CPI Index starting level = 236
Notional = 100,000
Term = 5 Years
How can I ...
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Is printing money really a bad thing?
I have 2 related questions about increasing money supply: (I know high school level economics.)
1) In an economy which has low growth and deflation, is it at all a bad thing to print money? In fact, ...
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Cause of long term inflation in the United States [closed]
Does the US government have a policy of printing money? If so what is this number called, who decides what it is, and where can I find it? If not what is the cause of our long term inflation? (I'm ...
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Index tracker and inflation
I'm trying to get my head around how inflation really affects index trackers. I've been looking at this question, but somehow misses the point I want (How To Account For Inflation Over Historical Data)...
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Pricing inflation lags
I've been looking into a short piece of maths I found on pricing inflation with payment delays, and was hoping someone could confirm whether my understanding was correct or if the maths isn't quite ...
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Inflation/Rates Correlation
I've been looking into a short piece of maths a colleague has written on pricing inflation with payment delays, and was hoping someone could confirm whether my understanding is correct, or if my ...
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Cross-Currency Inflation-Linked Swap
I am trying to find any references to cross-currency inflation-linked swaps. Have anyone encountered them and can describe how they work and how they differ from standard year on year inflation swaps?
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How can I break down the change in value for an inflation-linked bond
I am trying to decompose the change in value of an inflation-linked bond into two constituent parts:
1) That due to changing nominal rates on the issuer's non-linked bonds
2) That due to changing ...
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Probability of Hyperinflation as a function of Probability of Soverign Default
I'm looking for some academic research on modeling risk of hyperinflation. Specifically, I'm interested in modeling the probability of hyperinflation over some time interval (e.g., probability of ...
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How To Account For Inflation Over Historical Data
I believe inflation is greatly affecting my sample data, even when using percent-changes for movements. I have read this post, which recommends the formula ((Current-Base Year CPI) * Price) / (...
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Inflation modelling
I am trying to price an option on the Spanish CPI. The option is a European call with a single observation date. However, I am fairly new to inflation modelling, so there are two areas in which I ...
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Inflation swap liquidity versus inflation-linked bonds
In which markets are inflation swaps considered liquid enough to be the primary instrument for measuring market inflation expectations (compared to say, inflation-linked bonds)?
Are there specific ...
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How to calculate discounted inflation and growth?
Given the nominal bond yield and the inflation index bond yield (earning yield), how would one calculate the discounted inflation rate (discounted earning growth rates)?
These two factor seems to ...
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Accounting for Withdrawals
I am trying to wrap my head around the proper way to do this. I would like to simulate the portfolio value adjusted for inflation with a fixed withdrawal rate.
To simulate withdrawal rate, I will ...
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inflation > interest rate? [closed]
Currently, the federal reserve interest rate is 0-0.25%, and the inflation is 2-3%. Does this contradict the no-arbitrage principle? (The arbitrage being: borrow money at 0.25% and invest it in the "...
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Risk Decomposition of Index linked Bonds
Do you know how to decompose the risk of index linked bonds?
To value a inflation linked bond, one plugs the real zero curve into the bond PV calculation, the real interest rate is as the fisher ...
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Do bond credit ratings suffer from “ratings inflation”?
A friend of mine who studies game theory suggested that credit ratings from the bond ratings agencies, such as Moody's, S&P, and Fitch, may suffer from a sort of "ratings inflation" similar to the ...
