AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CALIBRATION OF THE SCHWARTZ 1997 REDUCED FORM NO ARBITRAGE

MEJIA VEGA, CARLOS ARMANDO

This book presents an introduction to the calibration (estimation of parameters) of the Schwartz (1997) reduced-forrn, no-arbirrage two factor model by applying a combination of the Kalman filter and the maximum log-likelihood method knows as the predictive error decomposition. This book is written in such a way that a reader with primary tools in stochastic calculus and optimization (mainly the maximum log-Iikelihood method) can find the necessary tools for doing its reading without problems and understand the essential elements of the methodology.