Times and Sizes of Jumps in the Mexican Interest Rate

This paper examines the role of jumps in a continuous-time short-term interest rate model for Mexico. A filtering algorithm provides estimates of jumps times and sizes in the time series of Mexican cetes for the 1998-2006 period. The empirical results indicate that the inclusion of jumps in the diff...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: José Antonio Núñez Mora, Arturo Lorenzo Valdés
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana 2008-01-01
Series:Análisis Económico
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=41311449003