This course gives you an easy introduction to interest rates and related contracts. These include the LIBOR, bonds, forward rate agreements, swaps, interest rate futures, caps, floors, and swaptions.
Course Details
| Language | English |
| Duration | 4 weeks |
| Effort | 3-4 hours / week |
Description
We will learn how to apply the basic tools duration and convexity for managing the interest rate risk of a bond portfolio. We will gain practice in estimating the term structure from market data. We will learn the basic facts from stochastic calculus that will enable you to engineer a large variety of stochastic interest rate models. In this context, we will also review the arbitrage pricing theorem that provides the foundation for pricing financial derivatives. We will also cover the industry standard Black and Bachelier formulas for pricing caps, floors, and swaptions.
What you will learn
At the end of this course you will know how to calibrate an interest rate model to market data and how to price interest rate derivatives.
Plan
1. Interest Rates and Related Contracts
2. Estimating the Term Structure
3. Stochastic Models
4. Interest Rate Derivatives
