Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance,
Stockholm School of Economics

No 133: Interest Rate Theory - CIME Lectures 1996

Tomas Björk ()
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Tomas Björk: Department of Finance, Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, Box 6501, 113 83 Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract: This set of lecture notes constitutes a self contained overview of the martingale based theory of interest rates. The lectures were given by the author at the 1996 CIME Summer School on Mathematical Finance, in Bressanone, Italy. The topics covered include: Bond markets, interest rates, arbitrage, martingale measures, completeness, short rate models, affine term structures, forward rate models, change of numeraire, log-normal models, state price densities, point process models, risky bonds, minimization of arbitrage information.

Keywords: Term structure of interest rates; bond markets; arbitrage; martingales

JEL-codes: G12; G13

86 pages, November 1996

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