RISK SENSITIVITIES OF BERMUDA SWAPTIONS

Vladimir V. Piterbarg ()
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Vladimir V. Piterbarg: Bank of America, 5 Canada Square, London E14 5AQ, UK

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), 2004, vol. 07, issue 04, 465-509

Abstract: A new approach to the problem of computing risk sensitivities of Bermuda swaptions in a lattice, or PDE, framework is presented. The algorithms developed perform the task much faster and more accurately that the traditional approach in which the Greeks are computed numerically by shocking the appropriate inputs and revaluing the instrument. The time needed to execute the tradition scheme grows linearly with the number of Greeks required, whereas our approach computes any number of Greeks for a Bermuda swaption in nearly constant time. The new method explores symmetries in the structure of Bermuda swaptions to derive recursive relations between different Greeks, and is essentially model-independent. These recursive relations allow us to represent risk sensitivities in a number of ways, in particular as integrals over the "survival" density. The survival density is obtained as a solution to a forward Kolmogorov equation. This representation is the basis for practical applications of our approach.

Keywords: Bermudan swaptions; hedging; Greeks; deltas; vegas; gammas; lattice methods; PDE; BGM; Libor Market Model; Cheyette model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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