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''Bond pricing.''
A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.
A bond or similar instrument which initially bears interest at a variable rate as if it were a floating rate obligation, but which will change to bear interest at a predetermined fixed rate in the event that a defined market rate falls to a stated level.  
 
A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Bond]]
* [[Frequency distribution]]
* [[Fixed rate]]
* [[Leptokurtosis]]
* [[Floating rate]]
* [[Lognormal frequency distribution]]
* [[Market rate]]
* [[Mean reversion]]
* [[Normal distribution]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Tail]]
* [[Trend analysis]]
* [[Volatility smile]]
   
   



Revision as of 14:19, 23 October 2012

A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.

A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).

See also