PDF INTEREST RATE SWAPS - NYU Stern School of Business
[Pages:24]INTEREST RATE SWAPS
September 1999
INTEREST RATE SWAPS
Definition:
Transfer of interest rate streams without transferring underlying debt.
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FIXED FOR FLOATING SWAP
Some Definitions
Notational Principal: The dollar the interest rates apply to.
Reset Period:
Period over which the coupon is fixed. By tradition fixed rate payer has sold swap, floating rate payer has bought swap.
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Example fixed for floating swap: 1. A pays B 8% fixed 2. B pays A six-month T bill rate + 2% floating 3. Time three years 4. Notational Principal one million
PERIOD T-BILL RATE A
0
4
1
3
30,000
2
4
25,000
3
5
30,000
4
7
35,000
5
8
45,000
6
50,000
B
40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000
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SOME VALUATION PRINCIPALS
Ignore risk for moment Although principal not traded equivalent to selling a fixed for floating bond of one million since this one million cancels out. At initiation, both sides must be happy. Thus price of fixed and floating must be same. Since floating is at par, rate on fixed must equal rate on three-year Treasury. Duration fixed > Duration of floating Therefore, if rates increase, person receiving floater better off. If rates decline, want to receive fixed. If no change in yield curve and upward sloping yield curve, payer of floating has positive value over its early life.
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Equivalent Swap 1. T-bill + 1% for fixed. 2. T-bill for fixed minus 1%. Example:
T-bill + 1% ------------>
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