Short-rate models with stochastic discontinuities: a PDE approach

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Main Authors: Calvia, Alessandro, De Donno, Marzia, Guardasoni, Chiara, Sanfelici, Simona
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author Calvia, Alessandro
De Donno, Marzia
Guardasoni, Chiara
Sanfelici, Simona
author_facet Calvia, Alessandro
De Donno, Marzia
Guardasoni, Chiara
Sanfelici, Simona
contents With the reform of interest rate benchmarks, interbank offered rates (IBORs) like LIBOR have been replaced by risk-free rates (RFRs), such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) in the U.S. and the Euro Short-Term Rate (\euro STR) in Europe. These rates exhibit characteristics like jumps and spikes that correspond to specific market events, driven by regulatory and liquidity constraints. To capture these characteristics, this paper considers a general short-rate model that incorporates discontinuities at fixed times with random sizes. Within this framework, we introduce a PDE-based approach for pricing interest rate derivatives and establish, under suitable assumptions, a Feynman-Kač representation for the solution. For affine models, we derive (quasi) closed-form solutions, while for the general case, we develop numerical methods to solve the resulting PDEs.
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spellingShingle Short-rate models with stochastic discontinuities: a PDE approach
Calvia, Alessandro
De Donno, Marzia
Guardasoni, Chiara
Sanfelici, Simona
Mathematical Finance
Probability
35Q91, 60H30, 91G20, 91G30, 91G60
With the reform of interest rate benchmarks, interbank offered rates (IBORs) like LIBOR have been replaced by risk-free rates (RFRs), such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) in the U.S. and the Euro Short-Term Rate (\euro STR) in Europe. These rates exhibit characteristics like jumps and spikes that correspond to specific market events, driven by regulatory and liquidity constraints. To capture these characteristics, this paper considers a general short-rate model that incorporates discontinuities at fixed times with random sizes. Within this framework, we introduce a PDE-based approach for pricing interest rate derivatives and establish, under suitable assumptions, a Feynman-Kač representation for the solution. For affine models, we derive (quasi) closed-form solutions, while for the general case, we develop numerical methods to solve the resulting PDEs.
title Short-rate models with stochastic discontinuities: a PDE approach
topic Mathematical Finance
Probability
35Q91, 60H30, 91G20, 91G30, 91G60
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04289