Asset Pricing Under the Quadratic Class

Posted: 27 Oct 2002

See all articles by Markus Leippold

Markus Leippold

University of Zurich; Swiss Finance Institute

Liuren Wu

City University of New York, CUNY Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business

Abstract

We identify and characterize a class of term structure models where bond yields are quadratic functions of the state vector. We label this class the quadratic class and aim to lay a solid theoretical foundation for its future empirical application. We consider asset pricing in general and derivative pricing in particular under the quadratic class. We provide two general transform methods in pricing a wide variety of fixed income derivatives in closed or semi-closed form. We further illustrate how the quadratic model and the transform methods can be applied to more general settings.

Suggested Citation

Leippold, Markus and Wu, Liuren, Asset Pricing Under the Quadratic Class. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=334660

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Liuren Wu

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