Pricing Options under Stochastic Interest Rates: A New Approach

Yong-Jin Kim and Naoto Kunitomo
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Naoto Kunitomo: Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

No CIRJE-F-26, CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: We shall generalize the Black-Scholes option pricing formula by incorporating stochastic interest rates. Although the existing literatures have obtained some formulae for stock options under stochastic interest rates, the closed-form solutions have been known only under the Gaussian (Merton type) interest rate processes. We shall show that an explicit solution, which is an extended Black-Scholes formula under stochastic interest rates in certain asymptotic sense, can be obtained by extending the asymptotic expansion approach when the interest rate volatility is small. This method called the small-disturbance asymptotics for Ito processes has been recently developed by Kunitomo and Takahashi (1995, 1998), and Takahashi (1997). We found that the extended Black-Scholes formula is decomposed into the original Black-Scholes formula under the deterministic interest rates and the adjustment term driven by the volatility of interest rates. We illustrate the numerical accuracy of our new formula by using the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model for the interest rates.

Date: 1998-10
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