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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=finance">finance</a>, <b>bootstrapping</b> is a method for constructing a (<a href="page.php?w=Zero-coupon_bond">zero-coupon</a>) fixed-income <a href="page.php?w=yield_curve">yield curve</a> from the prices of a set of coupon-bearing products, e.g. <a href="page.php?w=bond_%28finance%29">bonds</a> and <a href="page.php?w=swap_%28finance%29">swaps</a>.</p>

<p>A bootstrapped curve, correspondingly, is one where the prices of the instruments used as an input to the curve, will be an exact output, when these same instruments</p><p>
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