The author derives an efficient and accurate pricing tool for interest-rate derivatives within a Fourier-transform based pricing approach, which is generally applicable to exponential-affine jump-diffusion models.

Inhalt
A General Multi-Factor Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Principles of Characteristic Functions.- Theoretical Prices of European Interest-Rate Derivatives.- Three Fourier Transform-Based Pricing Approaches.- Payoff Transformations and the Pricing of European Interest-Rate Derivatives.- Numerical Computation of Model Prices.- Jump Specifications for Affine Term-Structure Models.- Jump-Enhanced One-Factor Interest-Rate Models.- Jump-Enhanced Two-Factor Interest-Rate Models.- Non-Affine Term-Structure Models and Short-Rate Models with Stochastic Jump Intensity.- Conclusion.