Financial Economics

Although intuitive at the macro level, interest rate swaps are actually very complicated derivative instruments. There are several parties involved in the swap transaction, documentation is often unfamiliar, pricing is a mystery and, the accounting and cash settlement mechanics can be confusing. This site is being built to de-mystify the entire swap process. InterstRateSwaps.info is a perpetual work-in-progress. Feedback from you, the users, will be incorporated into the site as new features, options and services. It is the goal of our staff to provide you with analytical tools, background information, academic information and general commentary on interest rate swaps. Its initial focus is on pricing interest are swaps. I have not found any better site for an overview of the swap market including models to calculate a swap rate for you with techniques used by professional swap traders.

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The American Finance Association (AFA) is the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics. The AFA was planned at a meeting in December 1939 in Philadelphia. The Journal of Finance was first published in August 1946 when dues were $3 a year. Association membership has grown steadily over time. Today the AFA has over 8,000 members and dues are $80 a year.

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The purpose of this site is to facilitate the circulation of research work in finance among researchers, students and professionals. Jean-Luc Chasson (49) is a financial professional. He is an actuary (member of the International Actuarial Association) and holds university degrees in statistics, mathematics, law and economics.

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Encycogov is the web's largest academic encyclopedia about corporate governance. It is used by students, academics, business people and government officials. Encycogov is an academic encyclopedia about corporate governance intended for use by students, academics, business people and government officials. The vision of Encycogov is to be the most useful and well documented web-based resource about topics that are relevant for the understanding of issues in corporate governance. Encycogov was started in the summer 1999 as an experiment and its development continues.

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Specifically, the firm has contributed to the growing body of evidence that markets have internal structures, with participants acting in prescribed ways based on their differing profiles and time horizons. Within this framework, the Olsen Group has demonstrated that financial time series exhibit significant deviations from a random walk and can be conditionally forecast.

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