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Record W2066425454 · doi:10.3905/jod.2004.434536

Interest Rate Swaps

2004· article· en· W2066425454 on OpenAlex
Peter G. Klein

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Derivatives · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCredit Risk and Financial Regulations
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterest rate swapCommodity swapSwap (finance)Fixed interest rate loanEconomicsForeign exchange swapTreasuryMonetary economicsFinancial economicsBusinessInterest rateEconometricsInterest rate parityFinanceFutures contract

Abstract

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“The standard textbook explanation shows how two corporate counterparties of differing credit quality can swap fixed for floating interest payments and both end up ahead. But this explanation only provides a range, not a specific value, for the equilibrium swap rate, based on rate spreads in the corporate market. In this article, Klein argues that much of the ambiguity arises because the role of the swap market maker in the transaction is ignored. Most swaps are not done directly between two corporate counterparties, but as two separate transactions with a market maker in the middle. There is often with a time delay, as well, during which the market maker warehouses the swap. In a competitive swap market, equilibrium swap rates will be determined by the rates the marginal market maker pays on fixed and floating rate liabilities. Klein provides empirical evidence to support the argument, using data from the Canadian market, in which the marginal market maker can be clearly identified as a large bank. Regression results show that swap rates are more closely related to bank spreads than to either corporate bond spreads or to Treasury rates.”

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.560
Threshold uncertainty score0.183

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.057
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it