A discrete-time two-factor model for pricing bonds and interest rate derivatives under random volatility

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A Discrete-Time Two-Factor Model for Pricing Bonds and Interest Rate Derivatives under Random Volatility

Steven L. Heston and Saikat Nandi Working Paper 99-20

The authors thank Daniel Waggoner for constructing the zero-coupon yield curves. The views expressed here are the authors’ and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or the Federal Reserve System. Any remaining errors are the authors’ responsibility.

Please address questions regarding content to Steven L. Heston, Goldman Sachs & Company, Asset Management Division, 32 Old Slip, New York, New York 10005, 212/357-1989, 212/357-6563 (fax), [email protected]; or Saikat Nandi, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2713, 404/614-7094, [email protected].

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A Discrete-Time Two-Factor Model for Pricing Bonds and

Interest Rate Derivatives under Random Volatility

Steven L. Heston and Saikat Nandi

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Working Paper 99-20

December 1999

Abstract: This paper develops a discrete-time two-factor model of interest rates with analytical solutions

for bonds and many interest rate derivatives when the volatility of the short rate follows a GARCH process that can be correlated with the level of the short rate itself. Besides bond and bond futures, the model yields analytical solutions for prices of European options on discount bonds (and futures) as well as other interest rate derivatives such as caps, floors, average rate options, yield curve options, etc. The advantage of our discrete-time model over continuous-time stochastic volatility models is that volatility is an observable function of the history of the spot rate and is easily (and exactly) filtered from the discrete observations of a chosen short rate/bond prices. Another advantage of our discrete-time model is that for derivatives like average rate options, the average rate can be exactly computed because, in practice, the payoff at maturity is based on the average of rates that can be observed only at discrete time intervals.

Calibrating our two-factor model to the treasury yield curve (eight different maturities) for a few randomly chosen intervals in the period 1990–96, we find that the two-factor version does not improve (statistically and economically) upon the nested one-factor model (which is a discrete-time version of the Vasicek 1977 model) in terms of pricing the cross section of spot bonds. This occurs although the one-factor model is rejected in favor of the two-one-factor model in explaining the time-series properties of the short rate. However, the implied volatilities from the Black model (a one-factor model) for options on discount bonds exhibit a smirk if option prices are generated by our model using the parameter estimates obtained as above. Thus, our results indicate that the effects of random volatility of the short rate are manifested mostly in bond option prices rather than in bond prices.

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Figure 1

Shows the implied volatilties from the Black model for call options on discount bonds. The bond and the option expire in 500 and 100 days respectively. Moneyness is the ratio of strike price to the price of the discount bond.

0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1 0.94 0.95 0.96 0.97 0.98 0.99 1 1.01 1.02 1.03 Moneyness Implied Volat ilit y ( B lack)