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This paper analyzes a term structure model that allows for both stochastic correlation between underlying factors and an extended market price of risk specification. We show that significant improvement in bond fitting and portfolio performance is obtained by the model. However, the restriction...
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Margrabe provides a pricing formula for an exchange option where the distributions of both stock prices are log-normal with correlated Wiener components. Merton has provided a formula for the price of a European call option on a single stock where the stock price process contains a continuous...
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This paper proposes a model for credit default swap (CDS) spreads under heterogeneous expectations to explain the escalation in sovereign European CDS spreads and the widening variations across European sovereigns following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). In our model, investors believe that...
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Financial markets are typically characterized by high (low) price level and low (high) volatility during boom (bust …) periods, suggesting that price and volatility tend to move together with different market conditions/states. By proposing a …
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reported that the model can explain the stylized facts of financial market such as heavy tails and volatility clustering …
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We consider a market consisting of multiple assets under jump-diffusion dynamics with European style options written on these assets. It is well-known that such markets are incomplete in the Harrison and Pliska sense. We derive a pricing relation by adopting a Radon-Nikodym derivative based on...
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structure of interest rates to state space form for a fairly general class of volatility specification including stochastic … variables. Estimation of this volatility function is at the heart of the identification of the HJM model. The paper develops a … the estimators. It is shown that not all combinations of the parameters of the volatility function are equally likely. The …
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-deterministic instantaneous forward rate volatility. In this case the forward rate is Markovian, even if the spot rate process is not. However … the estimation of a humped forward rate volatility model for Eurodollar futures series traded on the Chicago Mercantile …
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