The paper assesses estimates of term structure models for the United States. To this end, this paper first describes the mathematics underlying two types of term structure models, namely the Nelson-Siegel and Cox, Ingersoll and Ross family of models, and the estimation techniques. It then...

This paper develops a quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) procedure for estimating the parameters of multi-dimensional stochastic differential equations. The transitional density is taken to be a time-varying multivariate Gaussian where the first two moments of the distribution are approximately the...

We consider a continuous-time neoclassical one-sector stochastic growth model of Ramsey-type with CRRA utility and Cobb-Douglas technology, where each of the following components are exposed to exogeneous uncertainties (shocks): capital stock K, effectiveness of labor A, and labor force L; the...

This paper discusses the estimation of models of the term structure of interest rates. After reviewing the term structure models, specifically the Nelson-Siegel Model and Affine Term- Structure Model, this paper estimates the terms structure of Treasury bond yields for the United States with...

В статье рассмотрены определения термина «устойчивость банковской системы», приводимые различными авторами. Эти определения сопоставляются с определениями...

The main discretization schemes for diffusion processes, both unrestricted and reflecting in a hyper-rectangle, are considered. For every discretized path, an `antithetic' path is obtained by changing the sign of the driving random variables, which are chosen symmetric. It is shown that, under...

In this paper we consider the simulation of probabilistic chemical reactions in isothermal and adiabatic conditions. Models for reactions under isothermal conditions result in advection equations, adiabatic conditions yield the reactive Euler equations. In order to treat with scattering data,...

Maximum likelihood estimation of discretely observed diffusion processes is mostly hampered by the lack of a closed form solution of the transient density. It has recently been argued that a most generic remedy to this problem is the numerical solution of the pertinent Fokker–Planck (FP) or...

We describe a method of approximation of strong solutions to Stratonovich differential equations, that depends only on the Brownian motion defining the equation. h being the step size, it is known that the order of convergence of such approximations is h in the general case, and of h in some...