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Interest rate swaps: an option pricing approach

Interest rate swaps: an option pricing approach
Interest rate swaps: an option pricing approach
Interest rate swaps generally involve two firms with different credit ratings. A quality spread differential is observed to exist at different maturities for firm debts with different credit ratings. The quality spread differential allows two firms with different credit ratings to decrease their borrowing costs through interest rate swaps by utilising their comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets. The credit ratings of firms are determined by credit risk factors such as leverage and volatility of earnings asset value. This paper investigates the effect of the leverage and the volatility on the behaviour of risk premia between firm debts with different credit ratings by using the contingent claim analysis. Our results show that the quality spread differential can be explained by the differences in leverage and volatility. Thus two firms with different leverage and volatility of earnings asset value will benefit from interest rate swaps. However, it is found that the duration within which the quality spread differential exists is limited by the values of the leverage and the volatility of two firms
94-86
University of Southampton
Yu, B.
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Yu, B.
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Yu, B. (1994) Interest rate swaps: an option pricing approach (Discussion Papers in Accounting and Management Science, 94-86) Southampton, UK. University of Southampton 34pp.

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Interest rate swaps generally involve two firms with different credit ratings. A quality spread differential is observed to exist at different maturities for firm debts with different credit ratings. The quality spread differential allows two firms with different credit ratings to decrease their borrowing costs through interest rate swaps by utilising their comparative advantage in borrowing in different markets. The credit ratings of firms are determined by credit risk factors such as leverage and volatility of earnings asset value. This paper investigates the effect of the leverage and the volatility on the behaviour of risk premia between firm debts with different credit ratings by using the contingent claim analysis. Our results show that the quality spread differential can be explained by the differences in leverage and volatility. Thus two firms with different leverage and volatility of earnings asset value will benefit from interest rate swaps. However, it is found that the duration within which the quality spread differential exists is limited by the values of the leverage and the volatility of two firms

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Published date: July 1994

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Local EPrints ID: 36134
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/36134
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Date deposited: 03 May 2007
Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 15:31

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Author: B. Yu

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