[BOOK][B] Interest rate risk modeling: The fixed income valuation course

SK Nawalkha, GM Soto, NA Beliaeva - 2005 - books.google.com
… I would like to express my gratitude to Sanjay Nawalkha. His good judgment and his ability
to bring out the best in everyone involved have undoubtedly been the driving force behind …

An improved immunization strategy: M-Absolute

SK Nawalkha, DR Chambers - Financial analysts journal, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Nawalkha and Donald R. Chambers … Nawalkha is an assistant professor in the Robert G.
Merrick School of … and Vasicek (1984) and can be obtained from Nawalkha and Chambers. …

[BOOK][B] Dynamic term structure modeling: the fixed income valuation course

SK Nawalkha, GM Soto, NA Beliaeva - 2007 - books.google.com
… As demonstrated by Nawalkha and Beliaeva [2007a], the equation for … Nawalkha and Beliaeva
(NB) correct this error and also … Nawalkha is also the president and founder of Nawalkha

A simple approach to pricing American options under the Heston stochastic volatility model

NA Beliaeva, SK Nawalkha - Journal of Derivatives, 2010 - search.proquest.com
… In this article, Beliaeva and Nawalkha show how to get around the problem by transforming
the returns process tO create two uncorrelated path~independent trees for returns and …

The M-vector model: Derivation and testing of extensions to M-square

SK Nawalkha, DR Chambers - Available at SSRN 979600, 1997 - papers.ssrn.com
This article derives and tests a multiple-factor extension of the M-square model (see Fong
and Vasicek [1984] and Fong and Fabozzi [1985]), termed as the M-vector model. Tests of the …

Generalized M-vector models for hedging interest rate risk

SK Nawalkha, GM Soto, J Zhang - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2003 - Elsevier
This paper generalizes the M-square and M-vector models [Fong and Fabozzi, Appendix E:
Derivation of Risk Immunization Measures, in: Fixed Income Portfolio Management, Dow …

An improved approach to computing implied volatility

DR Chambers, SK Nawalkha - Financial Review, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A well‐known problem in finance is the absence of a closed form solution for volatility in
common option pricing models. Several approaches have been developed to provide closed …

Interest rate sensitivities of bond risk measures

TF Crack, SK Nawalkha - Financial Analysts Journal, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
We present a simple expression for the sensitivity of duration, convexity, and higher-order
bond risk measures to changes in term-structure shape parameters. Our analysis enables fixed…

Efficient trees for CIR and CEV short rate models

SK Nawalkha, N Beliaeva - Available at SSRN 976819, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents efficient binomial and trinomial trees for the Cox, Ingersoll, and Ross (CIR)
and the constant-elasticity-of-variance (CEV) short rate models. We correct an error in the …

Convexity, risk, and returns

N Lacey, SK Nawalkha - Available at SSRN 983316, 1993 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper tests empirically whether convexity is return enhancing (the traditional view based
upon parallel term structure shifts), or return diminishing (the equilibrium view suggesting …