A Note on the Pricing of Real Estate Index Linked Swaps

Tomas Bjork and Eric Clapham ()
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Eric Clapham: Dept. of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics, Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, P.O. Box 6501, SE-113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

No 492, SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance from Stockholm School of Economics

Abstract: In this paper we discuss the pricing of commercial real estate index linked swaps (CREILS). This particular pricing problem has been studied by Buttimer et al. (1997) in a previous paper.

We show that their results are only approximately correct and that the true theoretical price of the swap is in fact equal to zero. This result is shown to hold regardless of the specific model chosen for the index process, the dividend process, and the interest rate term structure. We provide an intuitive economic argument as well as a full mathematical proof of our result.

In particular we show that the nonzero result in the previous paper is due to two specific numerical approximations introduced in that paper, and we discuss these approximation errors from a theoretical as well as from a numerical point of view.

Keywords: Real estate; index linked swaps; arbitrage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G13 G20 L85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2002-02-13
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