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SABR smiles for RFR caplets

Pricing of Securities 2020-05-07 v4 Computational Finance Mathematical Finance Risk Management

Abstract

We present a natural extension of the SABR model to price both backward and forward-looking RFR caplets in a post-Libor world. Forward-looking RFR caplets can be priced using the market standard approximations of Hagan et al. (2002). We provide closed-form effective SABR parameters for pricing backward-looking RFR caplets. These results are useful for smile interpolation and for analyzing backward and forward-looking smiles in normalized units.

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@article{arxiv.2004.04501,
  title  = {SABR smiles for RFR caplets},
  author = {Sander Willems},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.04501},
  year   = {2020}
}
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