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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets ____________ ____________ Robert Dubil _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets ____________ ____________ Wiley Finance Series HedgeFunds:QuantitativeInsights Franc¸ois-SergeLhabitant ACurrencyOptionsPrimer ShaniShamah NewRiskMeasuresinInvestmentandRegulation GiorgioSzego¨ (Editor) ModellingPricesinCompetitiveElectricityMarkets DerekBunn(Editor) Inflation-indexedSecurities:Bonds,SwapsandOtherDerivatives,2ndEdition MarkDeacon,AndrewDerryandDariushMirfendereski EuropeanFixedIncomeMarkets:Money,BondandInterestRates JonathanBatten,ThomasFetherstonandPeterSzilagyi(Editors) GlobalSecuritisationandCDOs JohnDeacon AppliedQuantitativeMethodsforTradingandInvestment ChristianL.Dunis,JasonLawsandPatrickNaim(Editors) CountryRiskAssessment:AGuidetoGlobalInvestmentStrategy MichelHenryBouchet,EphraimClarkandBertrandGroslambert CreditDerivativesPricingModels:Models,PricingandImplementation PhilippJ.Scho¨nbucher HedgeFunds:AResourceforInvestors SimoneBorla AForeignExchangePrimer ShaniShamah TheSimpleRules:RevisitingtheArtofFinancialRiskManagement ErikBanks OptionTheory PeterJames Risk-adjustedLendingConditions WernerRosenberger MeasuringMarketRisk KevinDowd AnIntroductiontoMarketRiskManagement KevinDowd BehaviouralFinance JamesMontier AssetManagement:EquitiesDemystified ShantaAcharya AnIntroductiontoCapitalMarkets:Products,Strategies,Participants AndrewM.Chisholm HedgeFunds:MythsandLimits Franc¸ois-SergeLhabitant TheManager’sConciseGuidetoRisk JihadS.Nader SecuritiesOperations:AGuidetoTradeandPositionManagement MichaelSimmons Modeling,MeasuringandHedgingOperationalRisk MarceloCruz MonteCarloMethodsinFinance PeterJa¨ckel BuildingandUsingDynamicInterestRateModels KenKortanekandVladimirMedvedev StructuredEquityDerivatives:TheDefinitiveGuidetoExoticOptionsandStructuredNotes HarryKat AdvancedModellinginFinanceUsingExcelandVBA MaryJacksonandMikeStaunton OperationalRisk:MeasurementandModelling JackKing InterestRateModelling JessicaJamesandNickWebber _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets ____________ ____________ Robert Dubil Copyright#2004JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester, WestSussexPO198SQ,England Telephone(þ44)1243779777 Email(forordersandcustomerserviceenquiries):[email protected] VisitourHomePageonwww.wileyeurope.comorwww.wiley.com AllRightsReserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval systemortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recording,scanningorotherwise,exceptunderthetermsoftheCopyright,Designsand PatentsAct1988orunderthetermsofalicenceissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency Ltd,90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP,UK,withoutthepermissioninwritingof thePublisher.RequeststothePublishershouldbeaddressedtothePermissionsDepartment, JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussexPO198SQ, England,[email protected],orfaxedto(þ44)1243770620. 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To Britt, Elsa, and Ethan _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Contents ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 The Purpose and Structure of Financial Markets 1 1.1 Overview 1 1.2 Risk sharing 2 1.3 The structure of financial markets 8 1.4 Arbitrage: Pure vs. relative value 12 1.5 Financial institutions: Asset transformers and broker-dealers 16 1.6 Primary and secondary markets 18 1.7 Market players: Hedgers vs. speculators 20 1.8 Preview of the book 22 Part One SPOT 25 2 Financial Math I—Spot 27 2.1 Interest-rate basics 28 Present value 28 Compounding 29 Day-count conventions 30 Rates vs. yields 31 2.2 Zero, coupon and amortizing rates 32 Zero-coupon rates 32 Coupon rates 33 Yield to maturity 35 Amortizing rates 38 Floating-rate bonds 39 2.3 The term structure of interest rates 40 Discounting coupon cash flows with zero rates 42 Constructing the zero curve by bootstrapping 44 2.4 Interest-rate risk 49 Duration 51 Portfolio duration 56
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