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Hull White Equation Derivation
Hello I need your help.
I found the formula for deriving $A(t,T)$ and $B(t,T)$ in Hull White paper is like this
$BB_{tT} - B_{t}B_{T} - B_{T} = 0$ and
$ABA_{tT} - BA_{t}A_{T} - AA_{t}B_{T} + \frac{1}...
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How to solve these SDE Problems
Quuestion1.
I make a solution $r(t)$ used by Ito's lemma
$r(t)=e^{-a t}r(0)+\int _{0}^{t}e^{a (s-t)}\theta (s)ds+\sigma e^{-a t}\int _{0}^{t}e^{a u}\,dB^{1}(u)$
Is this right?
and I try to make ...
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Proof of the Hull & White Model calibration
I have a question about the demonstration of the formula which states that:
If we have an Hull & White Model for the short rate diffusion such that
Then the model is fully calibrated if and only ...
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Fitting to Market Data in Extended Vasicek / Hull White
I need your help for my task.
I need to calibrate to the market data for Hull White model for Zero Coupon Bond Price. I refer to John Hull and Alan White paper. I want to ask you a few questions and ...
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Implementation of Generalized Hull-White interest rate model
I am looking for implementation in R (or Matlab) of the Generalized Hull-White interest rate trinomial tree according to the following paper: Interest Rate Trees: Extensions and Applications (2017)
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Hull-White zero-coupon bond price does not depend on the volatility?
So, today I started pricing zero-coupon bonds using the Hull-White model. An interesting feature is that when t = 0 the bond price does not actually depend on the volatility since the last term of A(0,...
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Calibration of 1-factor Hull-White model using Jamshidians trick - see my code
So, I'm trying to calibrate the Hull-White 1-factor model given Black swaption volatilities that I have from the Bloomberg terminal. I'm following the Jamshidian method as described in this thesis (3....
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Hull white model Monte Carlo simulation Zero Coupon Bond
I am trying to use Hull White Model to price a zero coupon bond by Monte Carlo Simulation. The basic idea is under this equation:
Under Hull White Model, I want to generate every short rate (r) and ...
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Calibration of Theta, A(t) and B(t) of Hull White 1Factor model
I’m simulating interest rates via the HullWhite One factor model. To simulate the short rate I’m using the code from the Quantlib Python Cookbook, chapter 15 and beyond (By Goutham Balaraman and Luigi ...
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why calibrate volatility and fix the mean reversion
I have had a few experiences or chats with teammates about the Hull-White model.
The famous model has 2 parameters :
The volatility
The mean reversion
Very often I hear that the mean reversion has ...
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Zero Coupon Bond prices in One Factor Hull White model
I implemented the one factor Hull White model for educational purposes and I calibrated the model from a given (made up!) yield curve:
The Zero Coupon Bond Prices from this yield curve are:
Taking ...
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How can I estimate the time-varying θ term in the Hull-White one factor model?
I am trying to simulate the prices of bond indexes (e.g. Barclays Aggregate, IBOXX sovereign, IBOXX corporates) using Monte Carlo assuming that they follow the SDE given by the Hull-White model (one-...
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Hull White help needed
I've been trying to calibrate Hull-White 1 Factor & 2 Factor model using Caps but I've some major doubts about my methodology, and would really appreciate some help.
I am using these formulas
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Convert Short rate from HW simulation into Swap rates
I am trying to price an exotic option that requires me to simulate 10 yr swap rates. I have calibrated a 1 factor HW model to swaption prices. However, my understanding is that the HW model describes ...
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Estimation of market price of risk of short interest rate under the Hull-White model
I think I am a bit confused. I intend to estimate the market price of risk the short interest rate, say, under the Hull-White model. I have the following two questions.
Is it correct to state state ...
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A basic question about short-rate models
Sorry, if it's a very rudimentary question. I mainly practice tax but have to deal with financial transactions from time to time where I have to benchmark option prices. I have usually used Hull's ...
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Hybrid Heston-Hull White Model
I am wondering if anyone could recommend a few good papers on hybrid heston-hull white models, in particular with respect to the approximation of model European options for calibration. Literature on ...
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Zero Coupon Bond Price under Hull White Model (One Factor)
While pricing Zero coupon bond using One Factor Hull White model. how to determine this value using real world example. θ(t)=F_t (0,t)+(σ^2 (1-e^(-2at) ))/2a
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Relation between BDT volatility and Hull-White one factor Volatility
Is there any mathematical relationship between the volatility of spot rates calibrated from Lognormal model and the volatility of spot rates calibrated from HW one factor model?
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How to examine the impact of the parameters in the Hull White Model on the yield curve
I want to examine the yield curve resulting from the 2 Factor Hull-White model. Is there any way to examine the influence of the parameters on the yields curve without calibrating the model?
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Impact analysis of parameters in the 2 Factor Hull White Model
Through the 2-Factor-Hull White Model you can model the yield curve if you have the parameters $a, b, \sigma, \eta$ given.
Is there any way to measure the impact of these parameters on the yield ...
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Hull White Tree Calibration 2
This is actually to extend the question I asked previously and to follow up Bernd's answers.
This is the original link:
Instruments for calibrating Hull White Model
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As Bernd mentioned, it's ...
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Instruments for calibrating Hull White Model
I have a few questions regarding hull white calibration, specificly for the trinomial tree model.
1.I am wondering what are the ideal instruments could be used for hull white model calibration? Cap, ...
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European Call Option Modelling under 2 factor Hull White interest rates
I have modelled the yield curve through the two factor Hull White Model. Now I want to implement in Matlab the price development of a ATM-Call-Option (European).
Has someone an idea how to combine ...
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Monte-Carlo simulation Hull-White process: physical and risk-neutral measure
From Monte-Carlo simulation Hull-White process I get paths in risk-neutal measure. How can I get paths in physical measure?
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Lattice pricing of derivatives under multi curve framework (OIS and LIBOR)
My goal is to price various derivatives resetting to 1M and 3M LIBOR via using a lattice. I have calculated an OIS curve for discounting and adjusted 1M and 3M LIBOR forward curves to be consistent ...
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Proof behind solution for theta in Hull-White with time-dependent volatility and mean reversion?
I'm studying the following paper on Hull-White model calibration:
Hull-White paper
In this paper they study the general form of the HW model with time-dependent mean reversion and volatility:
$$dr(t) ...
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Details of calibration of Hull-White model
Consider the one-factor Hull-White model
$$
\mathrm{d}r(t) = (\theta(t)-\kappa r(t))\mathrm{d}t + \sigma\mathrm{d}W(t)
$$
When one calibrates the model to market data one chooses
$$
\theta(t) = \...
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Hull-White Extension of Vasicek Model
I am reading the book Interest Rate Models by Brigo and Mercurio and try to understand the Hull White Model Extended Vasicek Model. They start off by defining the instantaneous short-rate process ...
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How to get set the theta function in the Hull-White model to replicate the current yield curve
I want to calibrate the HW one factor model to current market data. How do I set the function $\theta(t)$ in
$$
\mathrm{d}r(t) = \kappa(\theta(t)-r(t))\mathrm{d}t+\sigma\mathrm{d}W(t)
$$
to ...
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Monte-Carlo simulation Hull-White process
I have one question about Monte-Carlo simulation Hull-White process, maybe you can give me some advice.
I constructed a Hull-White process using Python and QuantLib.
Now I want to construct a Hull-...
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Implementation of one-factor Hull-White short interest rate model
I am looking for implementation in R, VBA, C++, Python (or in any other programming language) of one-factor Hull-White short rate interest model according to the following article:
Hull J. and White ...
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volatility term structure calibration
As is well known in order to calibrate an interest rate model (i.e. hull-white, LMM) i need to use the current market yield curve and volatility. But in the case I want to calibrate the model in a ...
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Black Derman Toy model: from tree to differential equation
The Black Derman Toy model of interest rates is usually introduced as the model governed by the stochastic differential equation:
$$d \ln r = \left[\theta(t) + \cfrac{\sigma'(t)}{\sigma(t)}\ln r \...
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Time dependent parameters in Hull-White model
Hull-White:
$$d r = [\theta(t) - ar]d t + \sigma d W_t.$$
There is a statement in John Hull's book:
The advantage of making $a$ or $\sigma$, or both, functions of ...
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Fixing mean reversion parameter in the 1F HW model
I am trying to calibrate the 1 factor Hull White model to ATM swaptions. The strategy which I use is to minimise the sum of squared difference between model and market prices for the swaptions on the ...
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Why Hull White 2 Factor model can't capture vol skew?
Is there a way to stay with the short rate model (like HW2F or G2++) but extend it to capture vol term structure (vol smile or skew). What happens if I calibrate HW2F to OTM swaptions? (I don't want ...
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How to calculate mean reversion values for Hull White tree calibration on MATLAB?
As part of a time series analysis, I'm writing a MATLAB program to create a Hull White tree, for the purpose of pricing a coupon-bearing bond.
While using the function hwvolspec (volatility ...
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Zero-coupon bond price volatility with one factor Hull White interest rate model
I have been trying to understand the H&W model expression for zero coupon bond price volatilities:
$\nu_B(t_0,t_M)=-\frac{\nu_r}{m}(1-e^{-m\tau_{0,M}})$,
where $\nu_B(t_0,t_M)$ is zero coupon ...
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FX Hull-White model
A model for FX, presented in Interest Rate Models, Brigo and Mercurio (2006), has the following dynamics:
\begin{align}
dr_t^d&= \lambda_d(\theta_d(t)-r_t^d)dt+\eta_d dW_t^d\\
dr_t^f&= [\...
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Calibrating a two-factor Hull-White model using Neural Networks
So I have the following short-rate model
$$dX_t = a_1X_tdt + \sigma_1dW_t$$
$$dY_t = a_2Y_tdt + \sigma_2dB_t$$
$$r_t = X_t + Y_t + f(t)$$
with $X_0 = Y_0 = 0$ where $W$ and $B$ are Brownian motions ...
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zero coupon bond pricing formula using Hull White
I am having some trouble to understand the derivation of the parameters of zero coupon pricing formula using Hull White. Specifically I am trying to understand how to get
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where is the ...
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Hull-White formula on wikipedia, correct?
The distribution for the short rate in Hull-White model on Wikipedia is:
But the same equation in Damiano's Interest Rate Models - Theory and Practice is:
Q: I ...
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Hull White 2 factors and non Markov interest rates
I am studying the calibration of the 2 factors Hull White model on Brigo and Mercurio's book. They point out that, using cap volatilities, the value of $\rho$ is almost minus one and this means that ...
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Hull White Stochastic Volatility Model in Matlab
I'm trying to code the Hull White stochastic volatility model using matlab and somewhere my code seems to mess up. I've coded the SABR model as well and that's working fine. When I compare prices ...
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Calibration of 1F Hull White short-rate model to market data
I want to calibrate the Hull White 1 factor short rate model to market data. The main purpose is to simulate interest rate paths, which I will use to calculate the net pv of banking liabilities.
Some ...
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LIBOR rates from Vasicek/Hull-White model?
I am somehow puzzled by the following problem:
LIBOR rates are forward rates for an interbank loan for 1M or 3M (let's limit the range of possibilities to these two cases). Assuming that I have ...
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Consequence of negative mean reversion of hull white one factor model
I tried to calibrate the data for hull-white one-factor model. Sometimes, I get negative estimate of mean reversion factor after the calibration process. When I plug the negative mean reversion factor ...
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Extended Hull White Interest Rate Model for Zero Coupon Bond
Let's take the following three SDEs:
$$dr=u(r,t)dt + w(r,t)dX$$
$$u(r,t)=a(t)-br$$
$$w(r,t)=c$$
where $b$ and $c$ are constants and $a(t)$ an arbitrary function of time $t$.
If Zero Coupon Bond $Z(...
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Whites Reality Check for Pair Trading
I want to use the Monte Carlo Method described in Aronsons book Evidence based Technical Analysis to test if a given pairs trading strategy is useless.
First step there is to randomize the returns of ...
