A model is presented for pricing swaps, caps, and floors on inflation index returns. To capture general term structures of interest rates and index volatilities, the model requires time-averaged forward rate, and volatility inputs.
we consider swap-type payments of the following form
• At maturity time
• At each reset time
We assume that the level of the inflation index satisfies a domestic risk-neutral SDE of the form
Given SDE (1) for index levels, we may model the level of the inflation index
We note that, in marginal distribution, Equations 2 and 3 are equivalent
Given the assumptions described in Sections 3.1 and 3.2 above, we have the results