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Analysis of the Call Policy of Bund, Bahn, and Post in the German Bond Market

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It is well understood that the call feature of a callable bond can be regarded as the issuer’s option to redeem the bond prematurely. Typically, this call option can be exercised at a finite number of points of time with possibly varying call premia.

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  1. University of Mannheim, Germany

    Wolfgang Bühler & Michael Schulze

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  1. Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim, D-68131, Schloß, Mannheim, Germany

    Wolfgang Bühler (Lehrstuhl für Finanzierung) (Lehrstuhl für Finanzierung)

  2. Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923, Köln, Germany

    Herbert Hax

  3. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Reichardtstr. 11, D-06099, Halle, Germany

    Reinhart Schmidt (Lehrstuhl für Finanzwirtschaft und Bankbetriebslehre) (Lehrstuhl für Finanzwirtschaft und Bankbetriebslehre)

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Bühler, W., Schulze, M. (1999). Analysis of the Call Policy of Bund, Bahn, and Post in the German Bond Market. In: Bühler, W., Hax, H., Schmidt, R. (eds) Empirical Research on the German Capital Market. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58664-4_12

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