pathwisediscounter.hpp

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/* -*- mode: c++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
 
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 Copyright (C) 2008 Mark Joshi
 
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#ifndef quantlib_pathwise_market_model_discounter_hpp
#define quantlib_pathwise_market_model_discounter_hpp
 
#include <ql/types.hpp>
#include <ql/math/matrix.hpp>
#include <vector>
 
namespace QuantLib {
 
    class CurveState;
    /*!
    this class returns the number of units of the discretely compounding money
    market account that 1 unit of cash at the payment can buy using the LIBOR
    rates from current step.
 
    It also returns the derivative of this number with respect to each of the
    rates.
 
    Discounting is purely based on the simulation LIBOR rates,
    to get a discounting back to zero you need to multiply by
    the discount factor of t_0.
    */
    class MarketModelPathwiseDiscounter {
      public:
        MarketModelPathwiseDiscounter(Time paymentTime,
                                      const std::vector<Time>& rateTimes);
        void getFactors(const Matrix& LIBORRates, // LIBOR rate values for all steps
                        const Matrix& Discounts, // P(t_0, t_j) for j=0,...n for each step
                        Size currentStep,
                        std::vector<Real>& factors) const;
      private:
        Size before_;
        Size numberRates_;
        Real beforeWeight_;
        Real postWeight_;
        std::vector<Real> taus_;
 
    };
 
}
 
#endif