Arrangement for a loan to begin at some point in the future with a promise today to receive a specific interest rate or interest rates prevailing today for future loans. The term structure of interest rates is the relation between the current long-term and short-term interest rates, but underlying this is a relationship between the current long-term rate and the rates on current and future short-term loans.
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