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This paper analyzes the price stabilizing properties of puttable and extendible bonds, their potential to help develop interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall, prices for puttable and extendible bonds fall by less. Their embedded options work as a cushion and replicate the trading gains from hedging long-term bonds with interest rate derivatives. These bonds can help develop interest-rate derivative markets in developing countries and eventually increase demand for long-term government bonds. Informal evidence from OECD countries suggests that these bonds were useful in the 1980s, when interest rates were volatile.

Interest rates. --- Interest rate futures --- Bonds --- Derivative securities. --- Derivative financial instruments --- Derivative financial products --- Derivative instruments --- Derivatives (Finance) --- Financial derivatives --- Securities --- Structured notes (Securities) --- Bond issues --- Debentures --- Negotiable instruments --- Debts, Public --- Stocks --- Futures, Interest rate --- Financial futures --- Money market rates --- Rate of interest --- Rates, Interest --- Interest --- Econometric models. --- Macroeconomics --- Economics: General --- International Economics --- Investments: Bonds --- Investments: Options --- Banks and Banking --- Foreign Exchange --- Informal Economy --- Underground Econom --- Contingent Pricing --- Futures Pricing --- option pricing --- International Financial Markets --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Price Level --- Inflation --- Deflation --- Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects --- Economic & financial crises & disasters --- Economics of specific sectors --- Investment & securities --- Finance --- Financial crises --- Economic sectors --- Financial institutions --- Options --- Asset prices --- Prices --- Sovereign bonds --- Short term interest rates --- Financial services --- Currency crises --- Informal sector --- Economics --- Derivative securities --- Interest rates --- Brazil --- Option pricing