Continuous-time affine models have been recently introduced in the theoretical financial literature on credit risk. They provide a coherent modeling, rather easy to implement, but have not yet encountered the expected success among practitioners and regulators. This is likely due to a lack of...

We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for the positive definiteness of the predicted volatility matrix in a bivariate autoregressive volatility specification. These nonlinear inequality restrictions have strong implications in terms of causality between volatilities and covolatilities....

The purpose of this paper is to propose a general econometric approach to no-arbitrage asset pricing modelling based on three main ingredients: (i) the historical discrete-time dynamics of the factor representing the information, (ii) the stochastic discount factor (SDF), and (iii) the...