This is a measure of the fraction of the distance from the Treasury rate to the swap rate at
which the implied risk-free rate is found. The results show that on average the implied
risk-free rate lies 90.4% of the distance from the Treasury rate to the swap rate, 62.87
basis points higher than the Treasury rate and 6.51 basis points lower than the swap rate.
Our results are consistent with those of Houweling and Vorst (2002) who use the CDS
market to argue that market participants no longer see the Treasury curve as the risk-free
curve and instead use the swap curve and/or the repo curve.