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Pricing Barrier Options with One-Factor Interest Rate Models

Grace C.H. Kuan and Nick Webber
The Journal of Derivatives Summer 2003, 10 (4) 33-50; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jod.2003.319204
Grace C.H. Kuan
A lecturer in finance at the University of Exeter's School of Business and Economics in Exeter, U.K.
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A senior lecturer in finance at the Cass Business School of the City University in London.
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Pricing barrier options for interest rates and interest-dependent securities is harder than for equities, because interest rate processes typically require more complicated models than stock returns. Even single-factor models need to incorporate the initial yield curve in order to prevent apparent arbitrage opportunities among observed bond prices in the market. When closed-form solutions do not exist, numerical valuation techniques are required, and both lattice-based approaches and Monte Carlo simulation are in common use. But these methods are very computationally demanding, and lattice techniques also require careful handling of price nodes near the barrier. Kuan and Webber introduce a new approach, in which they estimate the first passage time to the barrier, and then value the option conditional on having hit the barrier. This leads to considerable improvement in performance, either less computational effort to achieve a given accuracy, or greater accuracy for a given amount of work.

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