Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56329 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 419
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
The purpose of this essay is to give an overview of some recent workconcerning structural properties of the evolution of the forward rate curve in an arbitrage free bond market. The main problems to be discussed are as follows. 1. When is a given forward rate model consistent with a given family of forward rate curves? 2. When can the inherently infinite dimensional forward rate process be realized by means of a finite dimensional state space model. We consider interest rate models of Heath-Jarrow-Morton type, where the forward rates are driven by a multi- dimensional Wiener process, and where he volatility is allowed to be an arbitrary smooth functional of the present forward rate curve. Within this framwork we give necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency, as well as for the existence of a finite dimensional realization, in terms of the forward rate volatilities.
Subjects: 
interest rates
Markovian realizations
forward rates
invariant manifold
JEL: 
E43
G13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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