Deriving Compound Bond Prices from Hull-White Short-Rate Dynamics
Summary
The document asks how to price a compound coupon bond, which pays principal and accumulated interest at maturity, under the Hull-White short-rate model. It starts from the model's zero-coupon bond pricing approach and proposes valuing the maturity payment with a conditional expectation, then applying the Feynman-Kac equation and an exponential-affine form to obtain ordinary differential equations for the coefficients.
The text supplies a proposed derivation and coefficient expressions, but it is framed as a question seeking validation and references. It does not establish that the formulas are correct, and the displayed expectation and coefficient expressions may contain sign or notation errors. It gives no numerical example or comparison with another model; readers should check the derivation and distinguish a bond's discounted payoff from an expectation that compounds the short rate positively.
Key ideas
- The proposed approach represents bond value through a conditional expectation under Hull-White short-rate dynamics.
- The Feynman-Kac equation provides a partial differential equation for the proposed value function.
- An exponential-affine assumption reduces the pricing equation to ordinary differential equations.
- The derivation is unverified and appears to contain notation or sign issues that require checking.
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# Pricing of the compound coupon bond with PDE
# Pricing of the compound coupon bond with PDE
I am now studying finance math using Steven E.Shereve's book. Using Interest Rate models, We can the price for zero-coupon with maturity price $1$ under Hull-White interest rate model[page 274] and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross positive constants model[page 275].
My question is that the formula for price of zero-coupon bond can be found in various literature, and I wonder why it is not covered in any book about a compound coupon bond pricing formula. Please propose the price of compound coupon in Hull-White interest rate model or let me know the relevant references. Compound coupon is a bond that does not pay interest before maturity and pays interest and principal at maturity, which is used in many financial sites, such as housing bonds.
My attempt to find price of compound coupon is as follows.
Statement Given probability space ($\Omega$, $F$, $\mathbb{P}$ ) and, under the Hull-White interest rate model for the short rate $r$, given by \begin{align*} dr_{t}=\left(b(t)-a r_{t} \right) dt + \sigma_{r} dW_{t}^{r} \end{align*} the no-arbitrage price at time $t$ of a compound bond expiring at time $T$ is as follows : $B(t,T,r) = \mathbb{E}^{*}(e^{\int_{t}^{T}{r_{s}ds}} \, \vert \, r_t = r)$ with the initial condition $B(T,T,r) = 1$. Then, $B(t,T,r)$ can be calculated as $B(t,T,r) = e^{-C(t,T)r-A(r,T)} $ where \begin{align*} C(t,T) &= \dfrac{1}{a} \left( {e^{a(t-T)-1}} \right) , \\ A(t,T) &= \dfrac{\sigma_{r}^{2}}{4 a^{3}} \left( - e^{-2a(T-t)} +4e^{-a(T-r)} +2a(T-t)-3 \right) + \int_{t}^{T}{\dfrac{b(s)}{a} \left( 1-e^{a(s-T)} \right) ds}. \end{align*}
Proof for Statement Under the Hull-White interest rate model given by \begin{align*} dr_{t}=\left(b(t)-a r_{t} \right) dt + \sigma_{r} dW_{t}^{r} \end{align*} the no-arbitrage price at time $t$ of a compound coupon bond with an expiry time $T$ is follows : \begin{align*} & B(t,T,r) = \mathbb{E}^{*}(e^{\int_{t}^{T}{r_{s}ds}} \, \vert \, r_t = r) \\ \end{align*} Then, by using Feynmann-Kac formula, the solution of $B(t,T,r)$ satisfies the following partial differential equation: \begin{align*} & \dfrac{\partial B}{\partial t} + \left( {b(t)-a r_t } \right) \dfrac{\partial B}{\partial r} + \dfrac{1}{2} \sigma_{r}^{2} \dfrac{\partial^{2}B}{\partial r^{2}} + r \, B = 0 \\ & B(T,T,r) = 1 \end{align*} and assuming the solution in the form of $B(t,T,r) = e^{-C(t,T)r-A(r,T)} $, We get two ordinary differential equations \begin{align*} & - \dfrac{d C(t,T)}{d t} + a C(t,T)+1 =0 \\ & - \dfrac{d A(t,T)}{d t}-b(t)C(t,T)+\dfrac{1}{2} \sigma_{r}^{2}{ \lbrace C(t,T) \rbrace } ^{2} = 0 \end{align*} $C(t,T)$ and $A(t,T)$ satisfying the above equation are as given in statement.
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