Amortized Interventional Forecasting for Multivariate CIR Processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03715v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:17:35 GMT
• Title: Amortized Interventional Forecasting for Multivariate CIR Processes
• Abstract summary: Mean-reverting dynamics are pervasive in finance.<n>CIR models capture only emphcorrelated co-movement, not emphcausal influence between series.
• Score: 2.918919242459813
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Mean-reverting dynamics are pervasive in finance, and the Cox--Ingersoll--Ross (CIR) process is a standard model for the time series they produce, from short rates to credit default swap (CDS) spreads. Yet CIR models capture only \emph{correlated} co-movement, not \emph{causal} influence between series, so they cannot answer the system's response when one series is externally shocked, which observational conditionals confound with historical co-movement. We make two contributions. First, an amortized model for distributional causal effect estimation that frames trajectories as time-stamped observations and predicts the calibrated multi-horizon shock response without retraining per scenario. Second, a causal multivariate CIR data-generating process that supplies the paired observational and interventional ground truth that real markets cannot. We instantiate and calibrate the framework on CDS spreads as a testbed. CIR-ACTIVA's validity is established on synthetic ground truth, independent of how well the simulator matches reality, while practical grounding is assessed by backtesting the generated traces against real CDS data. Against observational and amortized causal-inference baselines, CIR-ACTIVA leads on both causal selectivity in the joint distribution and horizon-resolved calibration, retaining its selectivity once the interventional law varies over the horizon, with gains concentrating at short horizons. This opens up a class of what-if queries on coupled spread systems, CDS stress testing among them, that observational forecasters cannot answer.

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