A Reduced Modelling Approach to the Pricing of Mortgage Backed Securities
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We consider a pricing model for mortgage backed securities formulated as a non-linear partial differential equation. We show that under certain feasible assumptions this model can be greatly simplified. We prove the well posedness of the simplified PDE.
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