he Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade are petitioning T the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to repeal a long-standing regulation requiring an investor to pay the total value of an option premium when purchasing a commodity option. Under the current "stock-style" o
Pricing interest rate futures options with futures-style margining
β Scribed by Ren-Raw Chen; Louis Scott
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 426 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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β¦ Synopsis
which follow diffusion processes are assumed and the instantaneous interest rate, r Cy,), and the spot price, Sot,) are determined. One of the state variables may be a spot price. lIf the option is American, it can be exercised on or before the expiration date. If the option is European, it can be exercised on the expiration date only.
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Prior to 1993, the Sydney Futures Exchange only provided "CHIT" data. These data are sourced from the written records (or "chits") filled in by the traders on the trading floor. They are not timeprecise.
This study examines the response of the spot and futures interest rates on the fed funds, Eurodollar, and Libor to the listing of CME fed funds options. With the exception of the Libor futures, the introduction of options is associated with a decrease in the conditional volatility of the interest ra
This article is based on the first chapter of the author's doctoral dissertation at the University of California at Berkeley. Thanks are due to the dissertation committee members: Gerard Gennotte, Hayne Leland, Pravin Varaiya, and especially, David Modest. Funding from the Norwegian Council for Rese
This research was partly funded by a grant from the Coordinating Council of Business Studies at Rutgers University. We gratefully acknowledge the superb research assistance of Steve Alessandrini, and the comments of two anonymous referees. This paper was presented at the 1990 meeting of the Northern
## Abstract This article uses the algorithm developed by Ritchken and Sankarasubramanian (1995) to make comparisons among the HeathβJarrowβMorton (HJM) models (Heath, Jarrow, & Morton, 1992) with different volatility structures in pricing the Eurodollar futures options. We show that the differences