Duration is the primary measure of interest rate sensitivity — it is the percentage change in price for a 1% change in interest rates. However, practitioners also look at convexity, which is the ...
One of us had a professor who would say, “When it comes to math, I’m slow, but I’m inaccurate.” That shortcoming can be a problem for understanding convexity in many parts of the fixed income markets, ...
Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Note on Duration and Convexity." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-025, August 2004. (Revised September 2004.) ...