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Estimating Term Structure Changes Using Principal Component Analysis in Indian Sovereign Bond Market


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1 Clearing Corporation of India., India
2 Long Island University, New York.
     

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This paper analyses the Indian sovereign yield curve shift from January 1997 to May 2012 to find out the principal factors affecting the term structure of interest rate changes. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on our data consisting of zero coupon interest rates derived from government bond trading using Nelson-Siegel functional form. This decomposition of the yield curve highlights important relationship between identified factors and metrics of the term structure shape. The empirical findings support statistical similarities between the Indian yield curve and term structure studies of major countries.

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Indian Sovereign Yield Curve, Principal Component, Interest Rates, Bond, Yield Curve, Macro-economics, And Term Structure of Interest Rates
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Authors

Golaka C. Nath
Clearing Corporation of India., India
Manoj Dalvi
Long Island University, New York.

Abstract


This paper analyses the Indian sovereign yield curve shift from January 1997 to May 2012 to find out the principal factors affecting the term structure of interest rate changes. We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on our data consisting of zero coupon interest rates derived from government bond trading using Nelson-Siegel functional form. This decomposition of the yield curve highlights important relationship between identified factors and metrics of the term structure shape. The empirical findings support statistical similarities between the Indian yield curve and term structure studies of major countries.

Keywords


Indian Sovereign Yield Curve, Principal Component, Interest Rates, Bond, Yield Curve, Macro-economics, And Term Structure of Interest Rates

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