Heath-Jarrow-Morton model

Choice of collateral currency

Collateral agreements are becoming popular in the over-the-counter derivatives market. Masaaki Fujii and Akihiko Takahashi demonstrate its significant impact on derivatives pricing with a direct link to the cross-currency market. The importance of…

Volatile volatilities

When pricing exotic interest rate derivatives, calibration of model parameters to vanilla cap or swaption prices can be especially time-consuming, especially if stochastic volatility is incorporated into the standard Libor market models or low…