Volume 3, Number 1, 5-66, DOI: 10.1023/A:1009646430215

Interest Rate Derivatives in a Duffie and Kan Model with Stochastic Volatility: An Arrow-Debreu Pricing Approach

João Pedro Vidal Nunes, Les Clewlow and Stewart Hodges

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Abstract

Simple analytical pricing formulae have been derived, by different authors and for several derivatives, under the Gaussian Langetieg (1980) model. The purpose of this paper is to use such exact Gaussian solutions in order to obtain approximate analytical pricing formulas under the most general stochastic volatility specification of the Duffie and Kan (1996) model. Using Gaussian Arrow-Debreu state prices, first order stochastic volatility approximate pricing solutions will be derived only involving one integral with respect to the time-to-maturity of the contingent claim under valuation. Such approximations will be shown to be much faster than the existing exact numerical solutions, as well as accurate.

exponential-affine models - stochastic volatility - Arrow-Debreu prices - bonds - interest rate futures - European path-independent interest rate options

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