This paper aims to serve two purposes. First, we provide information on the Turkish lira (TL) corporate bond market, which has developed rapidly in the last couple of years. Second and more prominently, we estimate the yield curve for corporate bonds in Turkey using the Nelson Siegel...

This paper aims to serve two purposes. First, it evaluates the ability of various financial market instruments to capture market expectations on short-term rate. Second, it proposes an alternative approach to obtain estimates of term premium inherent in alternative returns. Empirical results...