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Simulating exponential Vasicek/Ornstein-Uhlenbeck
I am trying to simulate commodity prices using the exponential Vasicek/Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model from Schwartz 1997 p. 926 Equation (1). I am using the closed form solution from Vega 2018 p. 5 Equation ...
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Estimating Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process drift
What is the easiest way to obtain a drift parameter of O-U process given I have $\mu$?
Is it ok to linearize the O-U process like so:
$P_{t} = \mu + \phi(P_{t-1}-\mu)+\xi_t$
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What is a stochastic processes which reasonably captures commodity price dynamics?
What stochastic processes (and corresponding probability distributions) empirically capture spot/forward commodity prices and forward term structures?
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I want to use discounted cash flow ...
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How to trade the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process?
My question comes from this paper, which is a short version of Avellaneda's paper The picture bellow provides a summary of the equations.
Do I understand correctly that in order to trade OU process I ...
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