TY - JOUR AU - Duffie,D. AU - Filipovic,D. AU - Schachermayer,W. TI - Affine Processes and Application in Finance JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Technical Working Paper Series VL - No. 281 PY - 2002 Y2 - September 2002 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0281 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/t0281.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Darrell Duffie Graduate School of Business Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5015 Tel: 650/723-1976 Fax: 650/725-7979 E-Mail: duffie@stanford.edu AB - We provide the definition and a complete characterization of regular affine processes. This type of process unifies the concepts of continuousstate branching processes with immigration and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type processes. We show, and provide foundations for, a wide range of financial applications for regular affine processes. ER -