According to the RM Technical Doc, they use yld vol. See section 4.2.2

For futures you can look in the CME website http://www.cme.com/trading/prd/fx/For forwards one thing you might look at are the Bid-Ask spreads on a data vendor such as ThomsonReuters or Bloomberg.

If you're using Vasicek, you have a closed-form expression for the entire term structure at each point in time, depending on the short-term rate at that point in time. If you have John Hull, 5th ed. take at look at pages 539 and onwards.

<t>Hull is basically saying that the bond yield is log-normal under the world that is risk-neutral with respect to the price at t of the $1 zero-coupon bond maturing on T).Then y(T)-y(0) is essentially a (scaled) sum of Wiener increments. Each infinitesimal increment has variance =dy(t)=ydt+SydW(t)E...

<t>You can start by comparing their present values. Simple cashflow discounting for fixed mortgage. For ARM can discount first n years of fixed cashflows and fixed spread from then on. Libor component should be worth approximately par at the end of the fixed rate period (n years).If price is similar...

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<t>Adjusted / undajusted means the coupon amount is adjusted (or not) whenever the date falls on a non-working date.If the coupon is adjusted and the date falls on a Saturday (with ModFoll), then the coupon is paid on Monday (assuming it doesn't take it to the following month) and the coupon amount ...

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<t>The 6m Libor paid every quarter faces reinvestment risk when compared to the 6m libor paid semi-annually. In the second case, very time the rate refixes you have fixed the interest rate that will be applicable of the next 6 months. In the first case, after 3 months you will get a different refixi...

<t>When you're pricing a regular swap (eg. quarterly payments indexed off 3M Libor), you have swap rates on the market which are quoted precisely for this instrument. You can thus price it directly from a discount curve built off the market swap rates. To answer question 2 take the following example...

You can find the USD rates on the fed website:http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data.htm

<t>Other possible explanations:Leverage: As a company's stock price falls, it's Debt/Equity ratio rises meaning higher volatility (which can be made worse if the firm decides to invest in more risky assets).Jumps: Market is more likely to jump down than up (e.g. due to restrictions on short-selling,...

<t>That is not sufficient. You need to worry about timing issues too. If the knock-in happens earlier that means you will have more floorlets, meaning a greater value for the floor.You will need some sort of model where the correlation between the Fx rate and the interest rate (which can be large) i...

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<r>You can also try using a one fator model with numerical integration which is generally faster than Gaussian copulas.A good book is Introduction to Credit Risk Modelling, Bluhm, Overbeck, Wagnerhttp://<URL url="http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Credit-Risk-Modeling/dp/158488326X/sr=1-2/qid=116135...