December 13th, 2014, 12:16 pm
Before getting too caught up in details of the numerical implementation (e.g. matching nodes on trees), you should think about what aspects of the joint stochastic process are most important to model for your purpose. If you are going to restrict yourself to a univariate process, then it would seem that you want to get the volatility structure of the reference rate right (it will generate the cash flows) and make sure the discount rate paths will match the current present value of known future cash flows. You are in this case left with the modeling choice of whether to model the discount rate as a deterministic process, or as a deterministic spread to the reference rate. If you allow yourself a second dimension, you can use this to model a stochastic spread process between the two rates. Rather than thinking of your model as represented by two trees, it may be conceptually easier to think of it as one tree with each node having multiple attributes. This way you ensure that one-to-one mapping, which is really just to say that each node represents a single state of the world.
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bearish on December 12th, 2014, 11:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.