This question was inspired by my attempt to understand the duration of a floating rate note, or FRN for short. Several answers, like this, say the duration of a FRN is just time to next coupon payment. But I'm still a bit confused even with the very definition of durations of FRNs.
In a continuous time model, let {P(0,t),t≥0} be the YTM curve of zero bonds. Then in this answer by @Gordon it is pointed out that the coupon a FRN with a unit principal pays at T2 with the coupon rate L(T1;T1,T2) to be set at $T_1
And my question is, how to evaluate the (Macaulay) duration of this FRN? The main problem is I don't know what rate I should differentiate V in.
As a guess, if I define the current discount rate to be rc such that e−rcτ=P(t,T1) where t∈[0,T1) and τ=T1−t is time to next payment of coupon, then I may write Vt=P(t,T1)=e−rcτ
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