December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
8h 7m
English
Unpublished memorandum, 1979
Let the price
at time u of a discount bond maturing at time v be described by the stochastic differential equation
where
is a Wiener process. As shown in Vasicek (1977) (Chapter 6 of this volume), the mean
and volatility σ(u, v) of the instantaneous rate of return are related by
where
is the spot rate and
is the market price of risk. Eq. (1) can be written as
Integrate Eq. (3) over u from t to
. We get

Now differentiate ...
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