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Wiener Chaos and the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model

Probability 2008-12-10 v1 Computational Finance

Abstract

In this we paper we recast the Cox--Ingersoll--Ross model of interest rates into the chaotic representation recently introduced by Hughston and Rafailidis. Beginning with the ``squared Gaussian representation'' of the CIR model, we find a simple expression for the fundamental random variable X. By use of techniques from the theory of infinite dimensional Gaussian integration, we derive an explicit formula for the n-th term of the Wiener chaos expansion of the CIR model, for n=0,1,2,.... We then derive a new expression for the price of a zero coupon bond which reveals a connection between Gaussian measures and Ricatti differential equations.

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@article{arxiv.math/0307197,
  title  = {Wiener Chaos and the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model},
  author = {M. R. Grasselli and T. R. Hurd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307197},
  year   = {2008}
}

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27 pages