Fractal Interest Rate Model

  • Rhee, Joon-Hee (Department of Business and Administration, Soong-Sil University) ;
  • Kim, Yoon-Tae (Department of Statistics, Hallym University)
  • Published : 2005.05.20

Abstract

Empirical findings on interet rate dynamics imply that short rates show some long memories and non-Markovin. It is well-known that fractional Brownian motion(fBm) is a proper candidate for modelling this empirical phenomena. fBm, however, is not a semimartingale process. For this reason, it is very hard to apply such processes for asset price modelling. With some modifications, this paper investigate the fBm interest rate theory, and obtain a pure discount bond price and Greeks.

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