Consistency Problems for
Heath-Jarrow-Morton Interest Rate Models
Filipovic,
D., ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
Bond markets differ in one
fundamental aspect from standard stock markets. While the latter are built up to a finite
number of trade assets, the underlying basis of a bond market is the entire term structure
of interest rates: an infinite-dimensional variable which is not directly observable. On
the empirical side, this necessitates curve-fitting methods for the daily estimation of
the term structure. Pricing models, on the other hand, are usually built upon stochastic
factors representing the term structure in a finite-dimensional state space. Written for
readers with knowledge in mathematical finance (in particular interest rate theory) and
elementary stochastic analysis, this research monograph has threefold aims: to bring
together estimation methods and factor models for interest rates, to provide appropriate
consistency conditions and to explore some important examples.
Keywords: mathematical
finance, stochastic differential equations, interest rates, termstructure, invariant
models Mathematics Subject Classification ( 2000 ) 91B28 ,60H15, 93B29
134 pages