Technical paper/Term structure
Does the term structure of the at-the-money skew really follow a power law?
A power law can fit the ATM skew, but struggles with short maturities
Optimal exercise of callable bonds
Citi quants and structurers present a term-structure model for callable bonds' work
High-frequency movements of the term structure of US interest rates: the role of oil market uncertainty
This paper analyzes the impact of oil market uncertainty on the level, slope and curvature factors derived from the term structure of US interest rates.
Black basket analytics for mid-curves and spread options
A new solution to calibrate derivatives with multiple strikes is proposed
Dynamic refinement of the term structure: time-homogeneous term structure modeling
The author considers a classical term structure model framework, ie, a Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework, on a time-discrete tenor, such as the London Interbank Offered Rate market model, using a sequence of tenor discretizations, where the tenors are valid…
Libor replacement II: completing the generalised FMM
The FMM is upgraded to model the full term structure, pricing all possible bonds and the bank account
Does the impact of exchange-traded funds flows on commodities prices involve stockpiling as a signature? An empirical investigation
This paper examines the relation between the flows into the three main commodity index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the prices, inventory and term structure of four energy and twelve US-traded agricultural contracts.
Smoothing algorithms by constrained maximum likelihood: methodologies and implementations for Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress testing and International Financial Reporting Standard 9 expected credit loss estimation
In this paper, the author proposes smoothing algorithms that are based on constrained maximum likelihood for rating-level PD and for rating migration probability.
Statistics of VIX futures and their applications to trading volatility exchange-traded products
In this paper, the authors study the dynamics of Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index (VIX) futures and exchange-traded notes (ETNs)/exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
An enterprise perspective of performance attribution: introducing the keel model
In this paper, performance attribution is extended to an enterprise level based on the keel model. The keel model introduced here is applied to the problem of attributing enterprise value changes to various risk factors.
Calculation of a term structure power price equilibrium with ramping constraints
This paper proposes a tractable quadratic programming formulation for calculating the equilibrium term structure of electricity prices.
Cutting edge: Kriging smooth energy futures curves
Applying kriging to extract smooth curves from energy futures prices
Credit goes to forward rate spreads
Term structure of interest rates explained with a credit model
CMS: covering all bases
CMS: covering all bases
Two curves, one price
The financial crisis multiplied the yield curves used to price interest rate derivatives, making traditional no arbitrage pricing no longer valid. By taking into account the basis adjustment bootstrapped from market basis swaps and using a foreign…
Two curves, one price
Interest Rate Derivatives
Two curves, one price
The financial crisis has multiplied the yield curves used to price plain vanilla interest rate derivatives, making classic single-curve no-arbitrage relations and pricing formulas no longer valid. Marco Bianchetti shows that no-arbitrage can be recovered…
Credit barrier models
Claudio Albanese, Giuseppe Campolieti, Oliver Chen and Andrei Zavidonov construct an analytic credit barrier model driven by credit ratings, constrained to fit the term structure of credit spreads