As unspanned stochastic volatility (USV) models gain popularity in the literature, bivariate USV models (with one spanned and one unspanned factor) become a fundamental model class: they are the simplest USV models that are potentially useful, and (like general one-factor models) they are...

I study the relationship between interest rates and interest-rate volatility, particularly the idea of unspanned stochastic volatility (USV): volatility risk that cannot be hedged with bonds or swaps. Simulated data is used to assess the ability of regression-based techniques, popular but...

Certain models of the term structure of interest rates exhibit unspanned stochastic volatility (USV). A model has this property if it involves a source of stochastic variation — called an unspanned factor — that does not affect the model's interest rates directly, but does affect the extent...