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Luigi Piergallini Date: 09/05/2014
Callable Bond Pricing
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Callable Bond
call·a·ble bond
A Callable Bond is a straight bond embedded with a call of:
European option (single call date)
Bermudan option (several call dates)
The issuer can buy back from the bond holders at pre-specified prices on the pre-specified call dates.
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Why Callable Bonds
They are more attractive to borrowers
They are less attractive to lenders
Lenders
Lenders get compensated through higher coupon rates.
In order to tone down call risks with callable bonds, many issuers introduce a call protection period during which a callable bond cannot be called.
Borrowers
Callable bonds give borrowers the option to refinance when interest rates are low.
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Callable Bond Value
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Coupon
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Let’s take a Bermudan callable bond:
2 year life
Call price 100
Callable until the 2nd coupon
Semi-annual coupon 4% 4%
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Underlying simulation
Simulate different paths for the underlying (interest rate)
7.09%
9.19%
11.91%
15.44%
6.81%
8.83%
11.44%
6.54%
8.48%
6.28%
0
1
3
2
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Bond Pricing
Resulting in different paths of the bond valuation
99.10046
96.7878
95.75492
96.5451
100.4394
98.716
98.3727
101.0012
99.7719
100.8344
0
1
3
2
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Callable Pricing (1)
Remember:
Call price 100
Callable till the 2nd coupon payment
Lenders
The issuer will call the bond only if the value of the bond is higher than what he needs to pay in calling it.
Borrowers
Callable bonds give borrowers the option to refinance when interest rates are low.
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Callable Pricing (2)
98.86668
96.7878
95.75492
96.5451
99.9552
98.716
98.3727
100 (101.0012>100)
99.7719
100.8344
0
1
3
2
Remember:
Call price 100
Callable till the 2nd coupon payment
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Modelling the underlying
The most well known one factor models:
Vasicek 𝑑𝑟𝑡 = 𝑘 𝜃 − 𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑡 + 𝜎𝑑𝑊𝑡
Cox-Ingersoll-ROSS (CIR) 𝑑𝑟𝑡 = 𝑘 𝜃 − 𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑡 + 𝑟𝑡𝜎𝑑𝑊𝑡
Ho-Lee 𝑑𝑟𝑡 = 𝜃𝑡𝑑𝑡 + 𝜎𝑑𝑊𝑡
Hull White (extended Vasicek) 𝑑𝑟𝑡 = 𝜃𝑡 − 𝛼𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑡 + 𝜎𝑑𝑊𝑡
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Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR)
𝜃, 𝑘, 𝜎 strictly positive constants
𝜃 is the long term mean
𝑘 is the speed at which 𝑟𝑡 reverts back to the long-term mean
𝜎 is the local volatility of short-term interest rates
Properties
Mean reversion
For given positive 𝑟0, the process will never touch zero if 2𝑘𝜃 ≥ 𝜎2
𝑑𝑟𝑡 = 𝑘 𝜃 − 𝑟𝑡 𝑑𝑡 + 𝑟𝑡𝜎𝑑𝑊𝑡
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OLS Estimation of CIR parameters
The simulation of the previous equation can be illustrated as:
𝑟𝑡+1 = 𝜃𝑘∆𝑡 + 1 − 𝑘∆𝑡 𝑟𝑡 + 𝜎 𝑟𝑡∆𝑡𝜀𝑡 where 𝜀𝑡~𝑁(0,1)
The sum square of the error (𝜎𝜀𝑡)2 𝑛−1
𝑖=1 must be minimised in terms of 𝑘 and 𝜃 to obtain 𝑘 and 𝜃 such that:
𝑘 ,𝜃 = argmin𝑘,𝜃
(𝜎𝜀𝑡)2
𝑛−1
𝑖=1
= argmin𝑘,𝜃
𝑟𝑡+1 − 𝑟𝑡
𝑟𝑡−
𝑘𝜃∆𝑡
𝑟𝑡+ 𝑘 𝑟𝑡∆𝑡
2
𝑛−1
𝑖=1
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Estimated Parameters
𝜎 =1
𝑛 − 2
𝑟𝑡+1 − 𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑡
−𝜃
𝑟𝑡+ 𝑘 𝑟𝑡
2𝑛−1
𝑖=1
The standard deviation, 𝜎 , of the errors is the estimated diffusion parameter:
𝑘 =𝑛2 − 2𝑛 + 1 + 𝑟𝑡+1
𝑛−1𝑖=1
1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 − + 𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1
1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 − 𝑛 − 1
𝑟𝑡+1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1
𝑛2 − 2𝑛 + 1 − 𝑟𝑡𝑛−1𝑖=1
1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 ∆𝑡
𝜃 =𝑛 − 1 𝑟𝑡+1
𝑛−1𝑖=1 −
𝑟𝑡+1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1
𝑛2 − 2𝑛 + 1 + 𝑟𝑡+1𝑛−1𝑖=1
1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 − 𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1
1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1 − (𝑛 − 1)
𝑟𝑡+1𝑟𝑡
𝑛−1𝑖=1
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CIR simulations
Estimated Parameters (Euribor 6 months)
𝜎 = 3.37%
𝑘 = 0.9%
𝜃 = 0.317%
0.00%
0.20%
0.40%
0.60%
0.80%
1.00%
1.20%
1.40%
1.60%
1.80%
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