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Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide

Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide

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by AMIR SADR
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: September 2009
ISBN: 9780470526118
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Book Description

An up-to-date look at the evolution of interest rate swaps and derivatives

Interest Rate Swaps and Derivatives bridges the gap between the theory of these instruments and their actual use in day-to-day life. This comprehensive guide covers the main "rates" products, including swaps, options (cap/floors, swaptions), CMS products, and Bermudan callables. It also covers the main valuation techniques for the exotics/structured-notes area, which remains one of the most challenging parts of the market.

  • Provides a balance of relevant theory and real-world trading instruments for rate swaps and swap derivatives

  • Uses simple settings and illustrations to reveal key results

  • Written by an experienced trader who has worked with swaps, options, and exotics

With this book, author Amir Sadr shares his valuable insights with practitioners in the field of interest rate

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Preface
    1. ″RATES″ MARKET
    2. BACKGROUND
    3. BOOK STRUCTURE
    4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. About the Author
  5. List of Symbols and Abbreviations
  6. PART One - Cash, Repo, and Swap Markets
    1. CHAPTER 1 - Bonds: It′s All About Discounting
      1. TIME VALUE OF MONEY: FUTURE VALUE, PRESENT VALUE
      2. PRICE-YIELD FORMULA
      3. PV01, PVBP, CONVEXITY
      4. REPO, REVERSE REPO
      5. FORWARD PRICE/YIELD, CARRY, ROLL-DOWN
    2. CHAPTER 2 - Swaps: It′s Still About Discounting
      1. DISCOUNT FACTOR CURVE, ZERO CURVE
      2. FORWARD RATE CURVE
      3. PAR-SWAP CURVE
      4. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SWAP/LIBOR CURVE
    3. CHAPTER 3 - Interest Rate Swaps in Practice
      1. MARKET INSTRUMENTS
      2. SWAP TRADING—RATES OR SPREADS
      3. SWAP SPREADS
      4. RISK, PV01, GAMMA LADDER
      5. CALENDAR RULES, DATE MINUTIAE
    4. CHAPTER 4 - Separating Forward Curve from Discount Curve
      1. FORWARD CURVES FOR ASSETS
      2. IMPLIED FORWARD RATES
      3. FLOAT/FLOAT SWAPS
      4. LIBOR/LIBOR BASIS SWAPS
      5. OVERNIGHT INDEXED SWAPS (OIS)
  7. PART Two - Interest-Rate Flow Options
    1. CHAPTER 5 - Derivatives Pricing: Risk-Neutral Valuation
      1. EUROPEAN-STYLE CONTINGENT CLAIMS
      2. ONE-STEP BINOMIAL MODEL
      3. FROM ONE TIME-STEP TO TWO
      4. FROM TWO TIME-STEPS TO...
      5. RELATIVE PRICES
      6. RISK-NEUTRAL VALUATION: ALL RELATIVE PRICES MUST BE MARTINGALES
      7. INTEREST-RATE OPTIONS ARE INHERENTLY DIFFICULT TO VALUE
      8. FROM BINOMIAL MODEL TO EQUIVALENT MARTINGALE MEASURES
    2. CHAPTER 6 - Black′s World
      1. A LITTLE BIT OF RANDOMNESS
      2. MODELING ASSET CHANGES
      3. BLACK-SCHOLES-MERTON/BLACK FORMULAE
      4. GREEKS
      5. DIGITALS
      6. CALL IS ALL YOU NEED
      7. CALENDAR/BUSINESS DAYS, EVENT VOLS
    3. CHAPTER 7 - European-Style Interest-Rate Derivatives
      1. MARKET PRACTICE
      2. INTEREST-RATE OPTION TRADES
      3. CAPLETS/FLOORLETS: OPTIONS ON FORWARD RATES
      4. EUROPEAN-STYLE SWAPTIONS
      5. SKEWS, SMILES
      6. CMS PRODUCTS
      7. BOND OPTIONS
  8. PART Three - Interest-Rate Exotics
    1. CHAPTER 8 - Short-Rate Models
      1. A QUICK TOUR
      2. DYNAMICS TO IMPLEMENTATION
      3. LATTICE/TREE IMPLEMENTATION
      4. BDT LATTICE MODEL
      5. HULL-WHITE, BLACK-KARASINSKI MODELS
      6. SIMULATION IMPLEMENTATION
    2. CHAPTER 9 - Bermudan-Style Options
      1. BELLMAN′S EQUATION—BACKWARD INDUCTION
      2. BERMUDAN SWAPTIONS
      3. BERMUDAN CANCELABLE SWAPS, CALLABLE/PUTTABLE BONDS
      4. BERMUDAN-STYLE OPTIONS IN SIMULATION IMPLEMENTATION
    3. CHAPTER 10 - Full Term-Structure Interest-Rate Models
      1. SHIFTING FOCUS FROM SHORT RATE TO FULL CURVE: HO-LEE MODEL
      2. HEATH-JARROW-MORTON (HJM) FULL TERM-STRUCTURE FRAMEWORK
      3. DISCRETE-TIME, DISCRETE-TENOR HJM FRAMEWORK
      4. FORWARD-FORWARD VOLATILITY
      5. MULTIFACTOR MODELS
      6. HJM FRAMEWORK TYPICALLY LEADS TO NONRECOMBINING TREES
    4. CHAPTER 11 - Forward-Measure Lens
      1. NUMERAIRES ARE ARBITRARY
      2. FORWARD MEASURES
      3. BGM/JAMSHIDIAN RESULTS
      4. DIFFERENT MEASURES FOR DIFFERENT RATES
      5. ″CLASSIC″ OR ″NEW IMPROVED″: PICK YOUR POISON!
    5. CHAPTER 12 - In Search of ″The″ Model
      1. MIGRATION TO FULL-TERM STRUCTURE MODELS
      2. IMPLEMENTATION ERA
      3. MODEL VERSUS MARKET: LIQUIDITY AND CONCENTRATION RISK
      4. COMPLEXITY RISK
      5. REMAINING CHALLENGES
  9. APPENDIX A - Taylor Series Expansion
  10. APPENDIX B - Mean-Reverting Processes
  11. APPENDIX C - Girsanov′s Theorem and Change of Numeraire
  12. Notes
  13. Index