Analytical bounds for Treasury bond futures prices |
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Authors: | Ren-Raw Chen Shih-Kuo Yeh |
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Institution: | 1. Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University, Room 1319, 1790 Broadway, New York, NY, 10023, USA 2. Department of Finance, National Chung Hsing University, 250 Kuo-Kuang Rd., Taichung, 402, Taiwan, ROC
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Abstract: | The pricing of delivery options, particularly timing options, in Treasury bond futures is prohibitively expensive. Recursive use of the lattice model is unavoidable for valuing such options, as Boyle in J Finance 14(1):101?C113, (1989) demonstrates. As a result, the main purpose of this study is to derive upper bounds and lower bounds for Treasury bond futures prices. This study first shows that the popular preference-free, closed form cost of carry model is an upper bound for the Treasury bond futures price. Then, the next step is to derive analytical lower bounds for the futures price under one and two-factor Cox-Ingersoll-Ross models of the term structure. The bound under the two-factor Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model is then tested empirically using weekly futures prices from January 1987 to December 2000. |
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