Transition Densities for Interest Rate and Other Nonlinear Diffusions
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Finance
- Vol. 54 (4) , 1361-1395
- https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-1082.00149
Abstract
This paper applies to interest rate models the theoretical method developed in Aït‐Sahalia (1998) to generate accurate closed‐form approximations to the transition function of an arbitrary diffusion. While the main focus of this paper is on the maximum‐likelihood estimation of interest rate models with otherwise unknown transition functions, applications to the valuation of derivative securities are also briefly discussed.Keywords
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