“…Finally, let us mention that the long-time behavior of affine processes has previously been studied in many different settings, either based on a detailed study of the characteristic function (see e.g. [46], [39], [20], [47], [34], [32], [36], [30]), by stochastic stability criteria due to Meyn and Tweedie ([4], [29], [44]), or by coupling techniques ([19], [18], [40]). One application of such study is towards the estimation of parameters for affine models.…”