This paper is the first on retail Structured Financial Products (SFPs) from the fixed-income area, namely open-end knock-outs (OEKOs) on government bond futures. We develop and apply a valuation algorithm for OEKOs to analyze the issuers' profit. On the basis of a simple superhedging strategy we...

This paper is the first to analyze and value early exercises of Individual Investors in fixed-income investment products. Assuming decision and transaction costs we consider that a continuous decision-making on holding or exercising is not optimal anymore and propose a new approach to modeling...