A note on “Monte Carlo analysis of convertible bonds with reset clause”

Kimura and Shinohara [T. Kimura, T. Shinohara, Monte Carlo analysis of convertible bonds with reset clauses, European Journal of Operational Research 168 (2006) 301–310] analyze the value of a non-callable convertible bond with a reset clause. For a reset convertible bond, the conversion ratio is not fixed but depends on the underlying stock price. However, their model does not consider a dilution effect which can result due to changes in the number of shares into which the bond is converted. In this paper, we have developed a new pricing formula for reset convertible bonds that adjusts for dilution.     

简单可转换债券的定价——一种鞅方法

可转换债券作为债券和期权的混合体,其定价比债券和期权的定价都要复杂.本文用鞅方法讨论可转换债券的定价问题,给出了便于计算的类似于Black-Scholes模型的定价公式.但我们利用鞅方法使定价模型的推导更自然.基于这一定价模型,可转换债券的价格可分解为转换期权的价格和简单债券的价值之和.     

基于跳扩散过程的可转换债券的定价

本文标的股票的方程采用跳扩散方程,首先规定一个跳跃的涨跌区间,这样就可以很快的找出跳跃点,我们根据跳跃点将股价聚类,然后把各个类看成是总体中抽取出来的一个样本,我们就可以估计出跳扩散方程中的所有参数.由于我们的标的股票的方程是含跳过程,因此无法找出完全保值的自融资策略,但我们可以根据风险最小化的原理给出可转换债券的价格,最后运用Monte Carlo模拟计算出了南京水运转债在0时刻的价格。     

Arbitrage valuation and bounds for sinking-fund bonds with multiple sinking-fund dates

The paper tackles the problem of pricing, under interest-rate risk, a default-free sinking-fund bond which allows its issuer to recurrently retire part of the issue by (a) a lottery call at par, or (b) an open market repurchase. By directly modelling zero-coupon bonds as diffusions driven by a single-dimensional Brownian motion, a pricing formula is supplied for the sinking-fund bond based on a backward induction procedure which exploits, at each step, the martingale approach to the valuation of contingent-claims. With more than one sinking-fund date, however, the pricing formula is not in closed form, not even for simple parametrizations of the process for zerocoupon bonds, so that a numerical approach is needed. Since the computational complexity increases exponentially with the number of sinking-fund dates, arbitrage-based lower and upper bounds are provided for the sinking-fund bond price. The computation of these bounds is almost effortless when zero-coupon bonds are as described by Cox, Ingersoll and Ross. Numerical comparisons between the price of the sinking-fund bond obtained via Monte Carlo simulation and these lower and upper bounds are illustrated for different choices of parameters.     

可转换公司债券价格与基础股票价格之间协整关系的实证研究

本文运用协整方法和非对称误差修正模型(ECM)对可转债价格和基础股票价格之间的动态传导关系进行了系统的实证探讨,发现我国可转债市场价格和基础股票价格之间存在长期均衡的协整关系,并且股票价格领先于可转债价格。本文认为我国可转债价格与基础股票价格之间存在着联动效应,这种联动效应存在着明显的阶段特征,并且转债价格与转股价值之间存在非对称传导现象。本文分析了这种联动效应及非对称传导的原因,指出由于套利机会的出现使转债价格不会偏离转股价值太远。     

带有重置条款的可转换债券定价

可转换债券是中国证券市场的热点之一.本文主要研究如何给带有重置条款的可转换债券进行定价.文中采用了等价鞅测度的思想将标的物从风险世界转换到风险中性世界中,然后在风险中性世界中应用鞅评价方法对带有重置条款的可转换债券进行定价.     

带重置条款的可转债定价模型及其实证研究

给出了附有巴黎期权特性的重置条款的可转债定价模型,通过把实际交易日数作为时间变量的节点数,以及把实际股价作为股价变量的节点之一,建立不等间距立体网格,采用有限差分方法求解模型,得到了海化转债的价格路径.结果表明,理论价值较好地反映了市场价值的变化趋势,重置条款提高了可转债价值,这对可转债的投资决策具有重要意义.     

Game Options Analysis of the Information Role of Call Policies in Convertible Bonds

Abstract

In debt financing, existence of information asymmetry on the firm quality between the firm management and bond investors may lead to significant adverse selection costs. We develop the two-stage sequential dynamic two-person game option models to analyse the market signalling role of the callable feature in convertible bonds. We show that firms with positive private information on earning potential may signal their type to investors via the callable feature in a convertible bond. We present the variational inequalities formulation with respect to various equilibrium strategies in the two-person game option models via characterization of the optimal stopping rules adopted by the bond issuer and bondholders. The bondholders’ belief system on the firm quality may be revealed with the passage of time when the issuer follows his optimal strategy of declaring call or bankruptcy. Under separating equilibrium, the quality status of the firm is revealed so the information asymmetry game becomes a new game under complete information. To analyse pooling equilibrium, the corresponding incentive compatibility constraint is derived. We manage to deduce the sufficient conditions for the existence of signalling equilibrium of our game option model under information asymmetry. We analyse how the callable feature may lower the adverse selection costs in convertible bond financing. We show how a low-quality firm may benefit from information asymmetry and vice versa, underpricing of the value of debt issued by a high-quality firm.     

The pricing of perpetual convertible bond with credit risk

Convertible bond gives holder the right to choose a conversion strategy to maximize the bond value, and issuer also has the right to minimize the bond value in order to maximize equity value. When there is default occurring, conversion and calling strategies are invalid. In the framework of reduced form model, we reduce the price of convertible bond to variational inequalities, and the coefficients of variational inequalities are unbounded at the original point. Then the existence and uniqueness of variational inequality are proven. Finally, we prove that the conversion area, the calling area and the holding area are connected subsets of the state space.     

The pricing of Asian options under stochastic interest rates

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of stochastic interest rates on the pricing of Asian options. It is shown that a stochastic, in contrast to a deterministic, development of the term structure of interest rates has a significant influence. The price of the underlying asset, e.g. a stock or oil, and the prices of bonds are assumed to follow correlated two-dimensional Itô processes. The averages considered in the Asian options are calculated on a discrete time grid, e.g. all closing prices on Wednesdays during the lifetime of the contract. The value of an Asian option will be obtained through the application of Monte Carlo simulation, and for this purpose the stochastic processes for the basic assets need not be severely restricted. However, to make comparison with published results originating from models with deterministic interest rates, we will stay within the setting of a Gaussian framework.     

具有动态信用风险的可转债的定价研究

本文基于鞅方法的定价理论,在全面考虑赎回条款、回售条款、公司不具稳定性的信用风险以及转股时股市受到稀释作用对可转债价值的影响后,给出可转换债券一个比较精确的定价公式。应用这些公式对南京水运公司可转换债券做实证分析,结果表明:定价公式的数值与实际市场可转债的价格波动情况吻合相当好,能反映出良好的预测效果.因此该可转债定价结果将有助于发行公司、投资者、监管机构和中介机构更准确的了解可转债的定价机制,而发行公司、投资者、监管机构和中介机构对可转债定价机制的熟悉将有助于在我国证券市场建立起一种成熟稳健的避险工具,从而推动证券市场的发展。     

A numerical PDE approach for pricing callable bonds

Many debt issues contain an embedded call option that allows the issuer to redeem the bond at specified dates for a specified price. The issuer is typically required to provide advance notice of a decision to exercise this call option. The valuation of these contracts is an interesting numerical exercise because discontinuities may arise in the bond value or its derivative at call and/or notice dates. Recently, it has been suggested that finite difference methods cannot be used to price callable bonds requiring notice. Poor accuracy was attributed to discontinuities and difficulties in handling boundary conditions. As an alternative, a semi-analytical method using Green's functions for valuing callable bonds with notice was proposed. Unfortunately, the Green's function method is limited to special cases. Consequently, it is desirable to develop a more general approach. This is provided by using more advanced techniques such as flux limiters to obtain an accurate numerical partial differential equation method. Finally, in a typical pricing model an inappropriate financial condition is required in order to properly specify boundary conditions for the associated PDE. It is shown that a small perturbation of such a model is free from such artificial conditions.     

可转换债券最优转换时点模型研究

可转换债券在我国是一种比较新的金融工具,在资本市场上的地位也越来越重要.并被誉为是上市公司再融资三驾马车之一.具有债性、股性及期权性三大特征.不同于以往复杂的定价模型,本文以可转换债券的“期权价值”为基础,利用实物期权思想,提出一个简单的模型对可转换债券的最优转换时点进行研究,并给出相应的模型刻画.     

随机利率模型下基于Tsallis熵分布的可转债定价

本文主要研究基于Tsallis熵分布且存在瞬时违约风险的情况下,随机利率服从Vasicek利率模型的可转换债券的定价问题。标的股票价格过程服从Tsallis熵分布的前提下,构建投资组合,利用无套利原理得到可转债价格所满足的偏微分方程,进一步采用有限元法得到可转债价格的数值解。根据长江证券、利欧股份以及吉林敖东股票的市场真实数据,利用Tsallis熵分布模拟收益率序列,并得到基于Tsallis熵分布的股价模型优于几何布朗运动模型下的最优参数,在此基础上,绘制股价基于Tsallis熵分布下三种标的股票所对应可转债的理论价格的三维图及与市场实际价格的对比图。研究结果发现,对应标的股票价格基于Tsallis熵分布下的可转债理论价格与市场真实价格更为接近。     

The valuation of convertible bonds with numeraire changes

The changes of numeraire can be used as a very powerful mean in pricing contingent claims in the context of a complete market. We apply the method of nurmeraire changes to evaluate convertible bonds when the instantaneous growth and variance of the value of issuer and those of zero-coupon bonds follow a general adapted stochastic process in this paper. A closed-form solution is derived when the instantaneous growth and variance of the value of issuer and those of zero-coupon bonds are deterministic function of time. We also consider a special case when the asset price follows GBM （Geometric Brownian Motion） and interest rate follows Vasicek＇s model.     

基于贝叶斯MCMC算法的美式期权定价

鉴于美式期权的定价具有后向迭代搜索特征,本文结合Longstaff和Schwartz提出的美式期权定价的最小二乘模拟方法,研究基于马尔科夫链蒙特卡洛算法对回归方程系数的估计,实现对美式期权的双重模拟定价.通过对无红利美式看跌股票期权定价进行大量实证模拟,从期权价值定价误差等方面同著名的最小二乘蒙特卡洛模拟方法进行对比分析,结果表明基于MCMC回归算法给出的美式期权定价具有更高的精确度.模拟实证结果表明本文提出的对美式期权定价方法具有较好的可行性、有效性与广泛的适用性.该方法的不足之处就是类似于一般的蒙特卡洛方法,会使得求解的计算量有所加大.     

次分数布朗运动下可分离交易可转债的定价及其风险参数

科学合理的定价是可分离交易可转债交易的基础.考虑到金融资产价格序列的长记忆性,应用次分数布朗运动的Ito公式和无风险套利原理,建立标的资产支付连续红利且资产价格遵循几何次分数布朗运动的可分离交易可转债定价模型.并利用Mellin变换求解得到定价模型的解析解.最后,分析几个风险参数对可分离交易可转债价值的影响,并通过数值模拟直观地呈现了可分离交易可转债价值随着相关参数变化的趋势.结果表明:股票价格、执行价格、债券的剩余期限、无风险利率、股票价格的波动率及股票价格的赫斯特指数都是可分离交易可转债定价时不可忽略的因素.     

随机利率下奇异期权的定价公式

在随机利率条件下,借助于测度变换获得了复合看涨期权的一般的定价公式,同时利用鞅理论和Girsanov定理,在利率服从于扩展的Vasicek利率模型时,得到了复合看涨期权精确的定价公式.用同样的方法,考虑了预设日期的重置看涨期权的定价问题,在利率服从同样的利率模型时,获得了重置看涨期权的定价公式.数值化的结果进一步说明了当利率遵循扩展的Vasicek利率模型时,B-S看涨期权的价格关于标的资产的价格是严格单调递增的,复合看涨期权的Geske公式是可以推广到随机利率的情况.     

Efficiently pricing barrier options in a Markov-switching framework

An efficient Monte Carlo simulation for the pricing of barrier options in a Markov-switching model is presented. Compared to a brute-force approach, relying on the simulation of discretized trajectories, the presented algorithm simulates the underlying stock price process only at state changes and at maturity. Given these pieces of information, option prices are evaluated using the probability of Brownian bridges not to fall below some threshold level. It is illustrated how two methods of variance reduction, control variates and antithetic variates, further improve the algorithm. In a small case study, the algorithm is applied to the pricing of options with the EuroStoxx 50 as underlying.     

Free boundary problem concerning pricing convertible bond

In this paper, we consider some behaviors of the optimal conversion boundaries (i.e. free boundaries) of American‐style convertible bond with finite horizon in some case. The bond's holder may convert it into the stock of its issued firm at any time before maturity, and the firm may call it at any time before maturity. Its pricing model is a parabolic variational inequality, in which the fundamental variables are time and the stock price of the bond's issuer. We achieve some properties of the free boundary, besides the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the variational inequality, such as: the monotonicity, the boundedness, smoothness and its starting point. Moreover, we analyze the relationship between the free boundary and the parameters in the problem, as well as, obtain the critical condition where the free boundary is a constant independent of time. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.