Many developing economies are heavily exposed to commodity markets, leaving them vulnerable to the vagaries of international commodity prices. This paper examines the use of commodity options - including plain vanilla, risk reversal, and barrier options - to hedge such risk. It then proposes the...

Contingent Credit Lines (CCLs) are widely used in bank lending and also play an important role in the functioning of short-term capital markets. Yet, their pricing and hedging has not received much attention in the finance literature. Using a financial engineering approach, this paper examines...

Contingent credit lines (CCLs) are widely used in bank lending and also play an important role in the functioning of short-term capital markets. Yet, their pricing and hedging has not received much attention in the finance literature. Using a financial engineering approach, the paper analyzes...

This paper analyzes the price stabilizing properties of puttable and extendible bonds, their potential to help develop interest-rate derivative markets, and their use by governments. Their stabilizing properties imply that, when bond prices fall, prices for puttable and extendible bonds fall by...

This paper proposes an extreme value approach to estimating the term structure of interest rate volatility, and shows that the volatility of interest rate changes is overestimated by the standard approach that uses the thin-tailed normal distribution. The volatility of maximal and minimal...