The HJM drift condition is the restriction that absence of arbitrage imposes on the drift once the volatilities are chosen:
Exemples
Example 8.4 (Hull–White is an HJM model)
Chapter 7’s model has : its drift is , 4.1 basis points a year for the ten-year forward with basis points and . Volatilities of this exponential form are exactly those for which the forward curve is driven by a single Markov state; a general makes the short rate path-dependent and the model can only be simulated.