Re: Question on convertible bond (with discretesdividends)

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Question-on-convertible-bond-with-discretesdividends-tp6450p6455.html

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:10 +0000, benoit houzelle wrote:

>         Your are right ! so we just change (thanks to Samuel Lerouge)
>         function
>         Disposable<Array> DiscretizedConvertible::adjustedGrid()
>         const
>          
>         Now the first spot node is 35.9996 (not 36 because we substact
>         NPV of dividend without grid adjustement and we add NVP
>         dividend with grid adjustement)
>          
>         To have exactly 36 replace
>         Time dividendTime = dividendTimes_[i];
>         by
>         Time dividendTime =
>         process_->riskFreeRate()->dayCounter().yearFraction(arguments_.settlementDate, arguments_.dividendDates[i]);
>          
>         The calculation time increases from 1s to 3s with my
>         configuration, it's why we used just once discount function.
>

Is the time increase due to the calls to yearFraction(), discount(), or
both?  What if we precompute dividendTimes_ correctly, i.e., if we put
your dividendTime formula in the DiscretizedConvertible constructor
(around line 69)?  We could also precompute the discounts in some way.

Anyway, send me a patch and I'll apply it to the repository.

Luigi


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