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A pricing kernel approach to valuing options on interest rate futures

A pricing kernel approach to valuing options on interest rate futures
A pricing kernel approach to valuing options on interest rate futures
This paper builds on existing asset pricing models in an intertemporal capital asset pricing model framework to investigate the pricing of options on interest rate futures. It addresses the issues of selecting the preferred pricing kernel model by employing the second Hansen–Jagannathan distance criterion. This criterion restricts the set of admissible models to those with a positive stochastic discount factor that ensures the model is arbitrage-free. The results indicate that the three-term polynomial pricing kernel with three non-wealth-related state variables, namely the real interest rate, maximum Sharpe ratio, and implied volatility, clearly dominates the other candidates. This pricing kernel is always strictly positive and everywhere monotonically decreasing in market returns in conformity with economic theory.
pricing kernels, simulation-based bayesian approach, libor futures options
1351-847X
93-110
Liu, Xiaoquan
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Kuo, Jing-Ming
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Coakley, Jerry
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Liu, Xiaoquan
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Kuo, Jing-Ming
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Coakley, Jerry
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Liu, Xiaoquan, Kuo, Jing-Ming and Coakley, Jerry (2015) A pricing kernel approach to valuing options on interest rate futures. European Journal of Finance, 21 (2), 93-110. (doi:10.1080/1351847X.2013.779289).

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This paper builds on existing asset pricing models in an intertemporal capital asset pricing model framework to investigate the pricing of options on interest rate futures. It addresses the issues of selecting the preferred pricing kernel model by employing the second Hansen–Jagannathan distance criterion. This criterion restricts the set of admissible models to those with a positive stochastic discount factor that ensures the model is arbitrage-free. The results indicate that the three-term polynomial pricing kernel with three non-wealth-related state variables, namely the real interest rate, maximum Sharpe ratio, and implied volatility, clearly dominates the other candidates. This pricing kernel is always strictly positive and everywhere monotonically decreasing in market returns in conformity with economic theory.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 15 April 2013
Published date: 2015
Keywords: pricing kernels, simulation-based bayesian approach, libor futures options
Organisations: Centre of Excellence for International Banking, Finance & Accounting

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Local EPrints ID: 357056
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357056
ISSN: 1351-847X
PURE UUID: 9d2e8e85-e61d-4aad-a260-c9fa42943af5

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Date deposited: 25 Sep 2013 09:50
Last modified: 10 Jun 2024 16:34

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Author: Xiaoquan Liu
Author: Jing-Ming Kuo
Author: Jerry Coakley

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