An Affine Term Structure Model (ATSM) is said to be solvable if the pricing problem has an explicit solution, i.e., the corresponding Riccati ordinary differential equations have a regular globally integrable flow. We identify the parametric restrictions which are necessary and sufficient for an ATSM with continuous paths, to be solvable in a state space D+ × Rn−m, where D+, the domain of positive factors, has the geometry of a symmetric cone. This class of state spaces includes as special cases those introduced by Duffie and Kan (1996), andWishart termstructure processes discussed by Gourieroux and Sufana (2003). For all solvable models we provide the procedure to find the explicit solution of the Riccati ODE.
Solvable affine term structure models
TEBALDI, CLAUDIO
2008
Abstract
An Affine Term Structure Model (ATSM) is said to be solvable if the pricing problem has an explicit solution, i.e., the corresponding Riccati ordinary differential equations have a regular globally integrable flow. We identify the parametric restrictions which are necessary and sufficient for an ATSM with continuous paths, to be solvable in a state space D+ × Rn−m, where D+, the domain of positive factors, has the geometry of a symmetric cone. This class of state spaces includes as special cases those introduced by Duffie and Kan (1996), andWishart termstructure processes discussed by Gourieroux and Sufana (2003). For all solvable models we provide the procedure to find the explicit solution of the Riccati ODE.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.