A Multi-Factor Binomial Interest Rate Model with State Time Dependent Volatilities
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Date: 03-28-2005
Start Time:
6:00pm
End Time: 7:30pm
Speaker: Thomas S. Y. Ho
Location: 412 Shapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium
ABSTRACT
This paper presents a multifactor binomial lattice arbitrage-free interest rate model that avoids negative and unreasonable high interest rate levels. It is consistent with historical interest rate experience. The model can be calibrated to the observed swaption prices quite accurately. The forward measures and structured sampling of scenarios can derived from the model to enhance computational efficiency. This generalized interest rate model has broad applications in securities valuation, risk management and satisfying regulations.
BIO
Thomas S. Y. Ho. President of Thomas Ho Company. Senior consultant to Market
Risk Management, AIG since 1997. EVP at BARRA. Founder/CEO of Global Advanced
Technology Corp (GAT), which provided over 200 financial institutional clients
worldwide portfolio analytics. Former professor in finance at Stern School of
Business, New York University. Author of 9 books, including recently published
?The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling,? Oxford University Press. Over 60
publications in academic journals. Co-author of the Ho-Lee model, the first
arbitrage-free interest rate model and author of key rate durations. Associate
editor for the Journal of Investment Management, Journal of Derivatives, Journal
of International Applied Finance.