Dartmouth finance professor Ken French very clearly and succinctly explains how inflation affects bond prices by comparing and contrasting TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) with short-term Treasury securities:
Hedging the risk of inflation…
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My name is Jim Garven. I currently hold appointments at Baylor University as the Frank S. Groner Memorial Chair of Finance and Professor of Finance & Insurance. I also currently serve as an associate editor for Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. At Baylor, I teach courses in managerial economics, risk management, and financial engineering, and my research interests are in corporate risk management, insurance economics, and option pricing theory and applications. Please email your comments about this weblog to James_Garven@baylor.edu. View all posts by Jim Garven