The Total Return Swap Pricing Model under Fuzzy Random Environments
Table 1
Parameter configuration.
Parameter classification
Parameter name
Parameter hypothesis and configuration
Time parameter
Expiration date
At present, the largest trading volume of TRS contract is 5 years; therefore, hypothesize that
Premium payment date
According to international practice, the premium payment cycle is usually a quarter; that is,
Discount parameter
LIBOR
The benchmark interest rate in the international financial market is London Interbank Offered Rate and usually is 0.5 or 1
Risk-free interest rate
use period counting rates or yields
Default parameter
Default recovery rate
Reference to international common assumptions, suppose that
Default threshold
The default threshold selection can be divided into endogenous and exogenous; we assume that is a constant and decided by exogenous
Other related parameters are as follows: NV = 1, V0 = 0.8, and F = 1. Through the R-software simulation calculation, we can get the results of Figures 1ā4 (the credit spreads unit in base points).