Title: Models for Forecasting Interest Rates with Application to Bond Portfolio Immunisation Author: Kateřina Vaňková Department: Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Supervisor: doc. RNDr. Ing. Miloš Kopa, Ph.D., Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics Abstract: The development and behaviour of interest rates play a crucial role in many financial fields. Interest rates can be forecasted using several models with different assumptions. In reality, these assumptions are not usually met. It leads to situations when a sophisticated and theoretically well-established model is not significantly better than simple methods, such as random walk. This thesis aims to study several approaches to interest rate forecasting...