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Exact Smooth Term-Structure Estimation

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  • Damir Filipovi'c
  • Sander Willems

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We present a non-parametric method to estimate the discount curve from market quotes based on the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse. The discount curve reproduces the market quotes perfectly, has maximal smoothness, and is given in closed-form. The method is easy to implement and requires only basic linear algebra operations. We provide a full theoretical framework as well as several practical applications.

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  • Damir Filipovi'c & Sander Willems, 2016. "Exact Smooth Term-Structure Estimation," Papers 1606.03899, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2018.
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