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vferret
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New Zero curve generation and Turn of the Year

March 31st, 2010, 11:57 am

Hi all, My Money market desk send me every year a new estimated rate for the EOY. So let imagine my USD libor 3M curves, i use a Dec Futures 13/12- 13/03as tenor. I considered my year end turn happened 31/12/10 - 04/01/10. I wonder how to fairly recompute my zero curve for the 16/03 ? From a sanity check point of view i can t calculated a Discount Factor (DF) from 16/12 - 31/12 using the DEC future market quote then used the EOY from 31/12 - 0301 and re-use the same quote Dec Future rate to calculate the period 04/01 - 16/03. Ametrano and Bianchetti "Bootstrapping the Illiquidity" explain "the effect can be modeled simply through a multiplicative coefficient applied to discount factor, or equivalently, an additive coefficient applied to zero rates, corresponding to all the dates following a given end of year".In my case i can t recalculate a multiplicative coef because the rate is given. What is according to you the best methodology to bootstrapp properly the curves for the EOY. Currently the method is wrong i really want to take into account these jumpsTo be very clear, i give you a current example DEC_10 Eurodollar 3M 13/12/10 - 13/03/11 : 99.15% ==> 0.85% (reuters source) EOY MM desk 31/12/10 - 03/01/11 : 0.95% (pure guess)How can i recalculate my DF03/01/11 ? Thanks a lot for your answer all comments will be appreciate actually. I know it s a basic topic but it would be very helpful to understand properly
 
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New Zero curve generation and Turn of the Year

April 1st, 2010, 1:03 am

Try googling "zero rate interpolation" or "swap curve bootstrapping". If you have access to bloomberg try seeing how they bootstrap a swap curve. Start with SWDF.