Interest Rate Modelling: With C++ Applications

The subject of interest rate modeling is quite important to quantitative finance due to the added complexity of the interest rate products. From an economical point of view, it is unreasonable to assume that either the price of bonds or yield follow the same model as equity securities. Therefore new models are required which properly handle the unique behaviour of interest rates. Of equal importance is the implementation of the above models. The paper will use object-oriented C++ to demonstrate both the efficiency of object-oriented programming and its usefulness in quantitative finance. C++ is arguably the favoured language of quantitative professionals and hence the paper also seeks to demonstrate some basic to intermediate concepts of the C++ object-oriented paradigm including classes, inheritance, overloading functions and abstract data types.