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Term Structure Estimation in Illiquid Government Bond Markets: An Empirical Analysis for India

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  • Dutta, Goutam
  • Vaidyanathan K
  • Basu Shankarshan

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With increasing liquidity of the Indian sovereign debt market from 1997, it has become possible to estimate the term structure in India. However, several frictions that cause individual securities to be priced differently from the "average" pricing in the market characterize the market. In such a scenario, traditional estimation procedures like ordinary least squares using various functional forms do not perform well. In this paper, we find that mean absolute deviation is a better estimation procedure in illiquid markets than the ordinary least square. We further find out a novel liquidity weighted objective function for parameter estimation. We model the liquidity function using the exponential and hyperbolic tangent functions and suggest the most robust model for estimating term structures in India.

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  • Dutta, Goutam & Vaidyanathan K & Basu Shankarshan, 2002. "Term Structure Estimation in Illiquid Government Bond Markets: An Empirical Analysis for India," IIMA Working Papers WP2002-09-01, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
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    1. Das, Rituparna, 2010. "Indian G-Sec Market II: Anatomy of Short Rates," MPRA Paper 27553, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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