Dr. Ren-Raw Chen

rchen@fordham.edu

Professor of Finance, Fordham University

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Interest Rate Derivatives

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Rate Conversion

LIBOR Bootstrapping

Midterm Exam on March 4 (review on 2/25 online and special OHs on 3/2)

Mini Homework (new mini, due on 4/8)

HW 1: barbell trading

Midterm Review Recording

Q&A for midterm: Sunday 3/2 @ 4:30 p.m.

Get Treasuries quotes on BB. Thanks to Karandeep who gives the following instruction: "The command SECF to find any securities. SECF>Category = Fixed Income >Govt tab> apply filters for maturities, mty type, etc."

Recording 3/11 FX Swap

HW 2: Vasicek model

Ho-Lee Model (4 years)

EOM timing option (JFI, 2009)

Timing option bounds (RQFA, 2012)

w. HL (JFI, 2023)

HW 3: Quality option with HL

bonus schedule

midterm exam with answers

homework status

swpation bootstrapping

credit risk

HW 4: Swaption

homework status

Final Exam Review