CIRPATHDEMO

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The Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process

is a popular model of interest-rate dynamics.

help cirpath

 CIRPATH   Simulate Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process 
% CIRPATHDEMO


cirpath is both a directory and a function.

  CIRPATH   Simulate Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process 
  INPUTS  : t     - observation times, n*1 vector
            a,b,s - process parameters, positive scalars
            r0    - starting value, cir(t(1))
  OUTPUTS : r     - realized values, n*1 vector, r(i) = cir(t(i))
  NOTES   : CIR process r(t) is defined by dr = a(b-r)dt + s*sqrt(r)*dW, 
            where W(t) is  standard Brownian motion. This implementation
            follows Glasserman (2004, p. 124), but calls NCX2RND to draw
            random values from the non-central chi-squared distribution.
  EXAMPLE : r = cirpath(0:.1:1,.2,.05,.1,.04)
  AUTHOR  : Dimitri Shvorob, dimitri.shvorob@vanderbilt.edu, 10/1/07

Example 1

The exercise partially reproduces an example in Glasserman (2004), Monte Carlo methods in financial engineering, Springer.

t  = [0 0.25];  % observation times
a  = 0.2;       % mean-reversion parameter
b  = 0.05;      % long-term mean
s  = 0.1;       % volatility
r0 = 0.04;      % starting value

n = 1e4;
x = nan(n,1);
for i = 1:n
    r = cirpath(t,a,b,s,r0);
    x(i) = r(end);
end
[f,xi] = ksdensity(x);
plot(xi,f/100,'k-')
title('Empirical distribution \itf(r(0.25)|r(0) = 0.04)')

Example 2

t  = 0:0.05:1;
a  = 0.2;
b  = 0.05;
s  = [0.01 .1 .5];
r0 = 0.04;

n = length(t);
m = length(s);
r = nan(n,m);
for i = 1:m
    r(:,i) = cirpath(t,a,b,s(i),r0);
end

plot(t,r,'.')
legend('\sigma = 0.01','\sigma = 0.1','\sigma = 0.5')
title('Sample paths of CIR processes with different values of \sigma')

%Example : cirpathdemo (Oh, the FEX code metrics..)

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