Modelling the French Swap Spread

Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi and Eric Jondeau

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: Swaps are one of the major innovations of the 80s but there are little empirical studies on interest rates swaps (IRS), especially on US and European markets. To understand how swap pricing works, we estimate IRS valuation models for the US, German and French swap markets. On one hand, we derive swap rate from the market value of the swap contract formula. On the other hand, questioning the role of default credit risk in valuing the swap contract, we show that the swap rate can be expressed as a function of corporate bond rate and default risk indicators; the empirical analysis indicates some elements of validity for both approaches.

Keywords: Swap; market; .; Interest; rate; swaps; .; Swap; valuation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 1999
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