15. (Short rate sensitivity) Gavin Jones sometimes has flashes of brilliance. He asked his instructor if duration

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15. (Short rate sensitivity) Gavin Jones sometimes has flashes of brilliance. He asked his instructor if duration would measure the sensitivity of price to a parallel shift in the short rate curve. (That is, +) His instructor smiled and told him to work it out. He was unsuccessful at first because his formulas became very complicated Finally he discovered a simple solution based on the running present value method. Specifically, letting P, be the present value as seen at time k and S = dP/dx=o, the S's can be found recursively by an equation of the form S-1 = -a P + b S. while the P's are found by the running method Find a and by

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Investment Science

ISBN: 9780195391060

1st International Edition

Authors: David G. Luenberger

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