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Explicit Caplet Implied Volatilities for Quadratic Term-Structure Models

Mathematical Finance 2022-12-09 v1

Abstract

We derive an explicit asymptotic approximation for implied volatilities of caplets under the assumption that the short-rate is described by a generic quadratic term-structure model. In addition to providing an asymptotic accuracy result, we perform experiments in order to gauge the numerical accuracy of our approximation.

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@article{arxiv.2212.04425,
  title  = {Explicit Caplet Implied Volatilities for Quadratic Term-Structure Models},
  author = {Matthew Lorig and Natchanon Suaysom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04425},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

22 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2106.04518

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