This project is aimed to analyse a dataset containing US dollar LIBOR interbank interest rates' time series, available in short and long term over the period 1961-2008, quarterly. The study is focused on searching for relationships between the long-term and short-term maturity interest rates, checking for the cointegration, the dependence and the response between these two kind of variables.
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