Sunday, December 17, 2017

Investigation of Interest Rate Derivatives by Quantum Finance

Liang, Cui. 2008. Investigation of Interest Rate Derivatives by Quantum Finance. Doctoral Dissertation, NUS.
Interest rate derivatives are the largest derivatives market in the world. In order to price different interest rate derivatives, one needs to model the underlying forward interest rate. Quantum finance developed by Baaquie is a framework to model non-trivial correlations between forward interest rates with different maturities as a parsimonious alternative to the existing interest rate theories in finance, in particular to the HJM-model. Base on the Quantum Finance framework, we empirically studied the Cap and Floor pricing, unlike Black's formula, the Quantum Finance formula generates the market price to an accuracy better than 90%.Also for swaption, the perturbation expansion formula generates the prices to an accuracy of about 95% and matches all the trends of the market. We also give a efficient algorithm for pricing American option on interest rate based on lattice field theory model.

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