simTermStructs

Simulate term structures for Hull-White one-factor model

Syntax

[ZeroRates,ForwardRates] = simTermStructs(HW1F,nPeriods)

[ZeroRates,ForwardRates] = simTermStructs(___,Name,Value)

Description

[ZeroRates,ForwardRates] = simTermStructs(HW1F,nPeriods) simulates future zero curve paths using a specified HullWhite1F object.

[ZeroRates,ForwardRates] = simTermStructs(___,Name,Value) adds optional name-value pair arguments.

Examples

Simulate Term Structures for the HullWhite1F Model

Create a HW1F object.

Settle = datenum('15-Dec-2007');
CurveTimes = [1:5 7 10 20]';
ZeroRates = [.01 .018 .024 .029 .033 .034 .035 .034]';
CurveDates = daysadd(Settle,360*CurveTimes,1);

irdc = IRDataCurve('Zero',Settle,CurveDates,ZeroRates);

alpha = .1;
sigma = .01;
 
HW1F = HullWhite1F(irdc,alpha,sigma)

HW1F = 
  HullWhite1F with properties:

    ZeroCurve: [1x1 IRDataCurve]
        Alpha: @(t,V)inAlpha
        Sigma: @(t,V)inSigma

Simulate the term structures for the specified HW1F object.

SimPaths = simTermStructs(HW1F, 10,'nTrials',100);

Input Arguments

HW1F — HullWhite1F object

object

HullWhite1F object, specified using the HW1F object created using HullWhite1F.

Data Types: object

nPeriods — Number of simulation periods

numeric

Number of simulation periods, specified as a numeric value. For example, to simulate 12 years with an annual spacing, specify 12 as the nPeriods input and 1 as the optional deltaTime input (note that the default value for deltaTime is 1).

Data Types: double

Name-Value Pair Arguments

Specify optional comma-separated pairs of Name,Value arguments. Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name must appear inside quotes. You can specify several name and value pair arguments in any order as Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN.

Example: [ZeroRates,ForwardRates] = simTermStructs(HW1F,NPeriods,'nTrials',100,'deltaTime',dt)

'deltaTime' — Time step between nPeriods

1 (default) | numeric

Time step between nPeriods measured in years, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'deltaTime' and a scalar numeric value. For example, to simulate 12 years with an annual spacing, specify 12 as the nPeriods input and 1 as the optional deltaTime input (note that the default value for deltaTime is 1).

Data Types: double

'nTrials' — Number of simulated trials

1 (default) | positive integer

Number of simulated trials (sample paths), specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'nTrials' and a positive scalar integer value of nPeriods observations each. If you do not specify a value for this argument, the default is 1, indicating a single path of correlated state variables.

Data Types: double

'antithetic' — Flag indicating whether antithetic sampling is used to generate Gaussian random variates

false (default) | positive integer

Flag indicating whether antithetic sampling is used to generate the Gaussian random variates that drive the zero-drift, unit-variance rate Brownian vector dW(t), specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'antithetic' and a Boolean scalar flag. For details, see simBySolution.

Data Types: logical

'Z' — Direct specification of dependent random noise process

Gaussian variates generated by simBySolution function (default) | numeric

Direct specification of the dependent random noise process, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'Z' and a numeric value. The Z value is used to generate the zero-drift, unit-variance rate Brownian vector dW(t) that drives the simulation. For details, see simBySolution for the HWV model. If you do not specify a value for Z, simBySolution generates Gaussian variates.

Data Types: double

'Tenor' — Maturities to compute at each time step

tenor of HullWhite1F object zero curve (default) | numeric vector

Maturities to compute at each time step, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'Tenor' and a numeric vector.

Tenor enables you to choose a different set of rates to output than the underlying rates. For example, you may want to simulate quarterly data but only report annual rates; this can be done by specifying the optional input Tenor.

Data Types: double

Output Arguments

ZeroRates — Simulated zero-rate term structures

matrix

Simulated zero-rate term structures, returned as a nPeriods+1-by-nTenors-by-nTrials matrix.

ForwardRates — Simulated forward-rate term structures

matrix

Simulated zero-rate term structures, returned as a nPeriods+1-by-nTenors-by-nTrials matrix. The ForwardRates output is computed using the simulated short rates and by using the model definition to recover the entire yield curve at each simulation date.