Abstract. This paper describes how an efficient and exact Monte-Carlo simulation of the Hull-White model could be performed. For that purpose the joint conditional distribution of the short interest rate and the discount factor is derived. The proposed approach can be straightforward extended to...

We introduce the smooth total variation distance as a natural choice to establish equivalence. We propose asymptotic and bootstrap-based tests for which asymptotic optimality is shown. The finite sample performance is studied by simulations. Then we apply tests to real data sets. The tests are...

We introduce new equivalence tests for approximate independence in two-way contingency tables. The critical values are calculated asymptotically. The finite sample performance of the tests is improved by means of the bootstrap. An estimator of boundary points is developed to make the bootstrap...

The Gaussian affine interest rate models are widely used in the financial industry for pricing, hedging and also risk management purposes. We consider the multifactor models with time dependent parameters. Usually the models are simulated using some appropriate discretization schema because the...

We study the stability of the no-arbitrage property under model uncertainty. We measure model uncertainty with the total variation distance of underlying probability distributions. We show that sufficiently small changes of the underlying probability distribution preserve the no-arbitrage...