A note on the inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equation

The inhomogeneous linear SDE X = C + integral(0+) X- dR, where X and C are cadlag processes and R is a semimartingale, is solved. We give the solution in a "nice" form, which is also more general than that of Yoeurp and Yor [Espace orthogonal A une semi-martingale, Unpublished, 1977]. This SDE has a very natural interpretation in finance. If C is a stochastic cash flow and R is the return process of a money market account (that is, N-1 = N0E(R)(1) is the value of the money market account at time t), then the solution X-t is the time-t value of the cash flow C accumulated in the money market account (at the stochastic interest "rate" dR) over the time interval [0, t]. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.