A NOTE ON FERGUSSON AND PLATEN: “APPLICATION OF MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION TO STOCHASTIC SHORT RATE MODELS”

Luca Vincenzo Ballestra, Graziella Pacelli and Davide Radi ()
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Graziella Pacelli: #x2020;Department of Management, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60121 Ancona, Italy

Annals of Financial Economics (AFE), 2016, vol. 11, issue 04, 1-7

Abstract: In a very recent and interesting paper, Fergusson and Platen (2015) investigate the applicability of the maximum likelihood (ML) method for estimating the parameters of some of the most popular stochastic models for the short interest rate. One of the main results of this paper is the analytical expression of the so-called observed Fisher information matrix for the Vasicek model at the ML point. However, in such a matrix some entries are not derived correctly and one entry is left unspecified. In the following, we provide the correct analytical expression of that matrix.

Keywords: Observed Fisher information matrix; maximum likelihood estimation; Vasicek model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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