A Hybrid Commodity and Interest Rate

Kay Pilz and Erik Schlogl

No 261, Research Paper Series from Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney

Abstract: A joint model of commodity price and interest rate risk is constructed analogously to the multi-currency LIBOR Market Model (LMM). Going beyond a simple "re-interpretation" of the multi-currency LMM, issues arising in the application of the model to actual commodity market data are specifically addressed. Firstly, liquid market prices are only available for options on commodity futures, rather than forwards, thus the difference between forward and futures prices must be explicitly taken into account in the calibration. Secondly, we construct a procedure to achieve a consistent fit of the model to market data for interest options, commodity options and historically estimated correlations between interest rates and commodity prices. We illustrate the model by an application to real market data and derive pricing formulas for commodity spread options.

Keywords: Commodity modeling; LIBOR Market Model; commodity futures; interest rate risk; spread options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2009-11-01
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