Empirical Estimation of Intraday Yield Curves on the Italian Interbank Credit Market e-MID

Anastasios Demertzidis and Vahidin Jeleskovic
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Anastasios Demertzidis: Department of Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Quantitative Methods in Economics, University of Kassel, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, D-34109 Kassel, Germany
Vahidin Jeleskovic: Department of Economics, Unit Empirical Economic Research, University of Kassel, Henschelstr. 4, D-34127 Kassel, Germany

JRFM, 2021, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-23

Abstract: This paper introduces a major novelty: the empirical estimation of spot intraday yield curves based on tick-by-tick data on the Italian electronic interbank credit market (e-MID). To analyze the consequences of the recent financial crisis, we split the data into four periods, which include events before, during, and after the recent financial crisis starting in 2007. Our first result is that, from a practical point of view, the intraday yield curve can be modeled by standard models for yield curves providing advantages for intraday trading on intraday interbank credit markets. Moreover, the estimates show that the systematic dynamics in the intraday yield curves during the turmoil were highly noticeable, resulting in a significantly better goodness-of-fit. Based on this fact, we infer that investors in the interbank credit market base their investment decisions on the effects of the intraday dynamics of intraday interest rates more intensively during a financial crisis. Therefore, the systematic impact on the e-MID appears to be stronger and econometric modeling of the intraday interest rate curve becomes even more attractive during a turmoil.

Keywords: interbank credit market; e-MID; Nelson–Siegel model; intraday yield curve estimation; financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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