The affine arbitrage-free class of Nelson-Siegel term structure models

Jens Christensen, Francis Diebold and Glenn Rudebusch

No 2007-20, Working Paper Series from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Abstract: We derive the class of arbitrage-free affine dynamic term structure models that approximate the widely-used Nelson-Siegel yield-curve specification. Our theoretical analysis relates this new class of models to the canonical representation of the three-factor arbitrage-free affine model. Our empirical analysis shows that imposing the Nelson-Siegel structure on this canonical representation greatly improves its empirical tractability; furthermore, we find that improvements in predictive performance are achieved from the imposition of absence of arbitrage.

Keywords: Interest rates; Econometric models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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