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Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors

The peak of the global financial crisis necessitated practitioners to rethink the single curve approach to pricing interest-rate derivatives. This was as a result of a violation in spot-forward parity relationships thereby prompting markets to realise the presence of a new type of risk and subsequen...

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Main Author: Vidima, Sizwe
Other Authors: Backwell, Alex
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management 2023
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description The peak of the global financial crisis necessitated practitioners to rethink the single curve approach to pricing interest-rate derivatives. This was as a result of a violation in spot-forward parity relationships thereby prompting markets to realise the presence of a new type of risk and subsequently the need for a multi-curve pricing framework. The roll-over risk framework is one that accounts for liquidity constraints and default risk thereby providing a cogent explanation for the spotforward parity violation that led to the need for multiple curves. The primary objective of this work is to price XIBOR-based caps and floors under a framework which accounts for roll-over risk. This reformulation of interest-rate derivatives is achieved using Fourier Transform methods as well as Monte Carlo simulations for comparison. We found that the results obtained using the two approaches were comparable even though the two methods are different in nature. This agreement in prices is compelling evidence that the computations are correct.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/37033 Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors Vidima, Sizwe Backwell, Alex Mathematical Finance The peak of the global financial crisis necessitated practitioners to rethink the single curve approach to pricing interest-rate derivatives. This was as a result of a violation in spot-forward parity relationships thereby prompting markets to realise the presence of a new type of risk and subsequently the need for a multi-curve pricing framework. The roll-over risk framework is one that accounts for liquidity constraints and default risk thereby providing a cogent explanation for the spotforward parity violation that led to the need for multiple curves. The primary objective of this work is to price XIBOR-based caps and floors under a framework which accounts for roll-over risk. This reformulation of interest-rate derivatives is achieved using Fourier Transform methods as well as Monte Carlo simulations for comparison. We found that the results obtained using the two approaches were comparable even though the two methods are different in nature. This agreement in prices is compelling evidence that the computations are correct. 2023-02-23T11:20:47Z 2023-02-23T11:20:47Z 2022 2023-02-21T07:27:53Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/37033 eng application/pdf African Institute of Financial Markets and Risk Management Faculty of Commerce
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title Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors
title_full Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors
title_fullStr Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors
title_full_unstemmed Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors
title_short Accounting for roll-over risk in the pricing of caps and floors
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