기사
Interest Rate Caps qqqquot;Smileqqqquot; Too But Can the LIBOR Market Models Capture the Smile /
- 개인저자
- Jarrow, Robert ;, Li, Haitao ;, Zhao, Feng ;
- 수록페이지
- 345-382 p.
- 발행일자
- 2007.02.14
- 출판사
- Blackwell Pub
초록
[영문]Using 3 years of interest rate caps price data, we provide a comprehensive documentation of volatility smiles in the caps market. To capture the volatility smiles, we develop a multifactor term structure model with stochastic volatility and jumps that yields a closed-form formula for cap prices. We show that although a three-factor stochastic volatility model can price at-the-money caps well, significant negative jumps in interest rates are needed to capture the smile. The volatility smile contains information that is not available using only at-the-money caps, and this information is important for understanding term structure models.