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Swap Curve Steepener: A Teaching Note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-27)
Swiss Roll (B): A Teaching Note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-07)
Shiny alternative for finance in the classroom
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-31)
Despite the popularity of open-source languages like R and Python in modern empirical research and the data-science industry, spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel remain the data analysis software of choice in much ...
Computational finance using QuantLib-Python
(IEEE Computer Society, 2016)
Given the complexity of over-the-counter derivatives and structured products, almost all derivatives pricing today is based on numerical methods. Large financial institutions typically have their own teams of developers ...
Derivatives pricing using QuantLib: an introduction
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Given the complexity of over-the-counter derivatives and structured products, al- most all of derivatives pricing today is based on numerical methods. While large fi- nancial institutions typically have their own team of ...
Swiss Roll (B)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-07)
In the aftermath of global financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing capital flows into Switzerland, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decided to peg Swiss Franc (CHF) to the Euro (EUR), and announced that it would not let CHF ...
Hundred Million Dollar Beta
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-11)
This case is about the practical and conceptual issues involved in estimating the beta of a company for the purpose of computing the cost of capital using the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model). In many applications of the ...
Swap Curve Steepener
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-27)
The case is about a decision problem facing James on whether or not to invest in a structured product called the “CMS Steepener” issued by a large US investment bank. The payoff from the product is linked to two constant ...