Stochastic Models of Financial Mathematics
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This book presents a short introduction to continuous-time financial models. An overview of the basics of stochastic analysis precedes a focus on the Black–Scholes and interest rate models. Other topics covered include self-financing strategies, option pricing, exotic options and risk-neutral probabilities. Vasicek, Cox-Ingersoll-Ross, and Heath–Jarrow–Morton interest rate models are also explored. The author presents practitioners with a basic introduction, with more rigorous information provided for mathematicians. The reader is assumed to be familiar with the basics of probability theory. Some basic knowledge of stochastic integration and differential equations theory is preferable, although all preliminary information is given in the first part of the book. Some relatively simple theoretical exercises are also provided.
- About continuous-time stochastic models of financial mathematics
- Black-Sholes model and interest rate models
- Requiring a minimum knowledge of stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations
Vigirdas Mackevicius
Vigirdas Mackevicius is Professor of the Department of Mathematical Analysis in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University in Lithuania. His research interests include stochastic processes, stochastic analysis, and stochastic numerics.
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Stochastic Models of Financial Mathematics - Vigirdas Mackevicius
Stochastic Models of Financial Mathematics
Vigirdas Mackevičius
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Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Notations
1: Overview of the Basics of Stochastic Analysis
Abstract
1.1 Brownian motion
1.2 Stochastic integrals
1.3 Martingales, Itô processes and general Itô’s formula
1.4 Stochastic differential equations
1.5 Change of probability: the Girsanov theorem
2: The Black–Scholes Model
Abstract
2.1 Introduction: what is an option?
2.2 Self-financing strategies
2.3 Option pricing problem: the Black–Scholes model
2.4 The Black–Scholes formula
2.5 Risk-neutral probabilities: alternative derivation of the Black–Scholes formula
2.6 American options in the Black–Scholes model
2.7 Exotic options
3: Models of Interest Rates
Abstract
3.1 Modeling principles
3.2 The Vašíček model
3.3 The Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model
3.4 The Heath–Jarrow–Morton model
Bibliography
Index
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Preface
Vigirdas Mackevičius, Vilnius
These lecture notes are based on a graduate course given for several years at Vilnius University as part of the Master’s program Financial and Actuarial Mathematics
. They are intended to give a short introduction to continuous-time financial models including Black–Scholes and interest rate models. We assume the reader to be familiar with the basics of probability theory in the scope of a standard elementary course. Some basic knowledge of stochastic integration and differential equations theory is preferable, although, formally, all the preliminary information is given in part 1 of the lecture notes.
Though a large number of books and textbooks have influenced the writing of these notes, the short reference list includes only the literature directly used by the author.
The author would like to thank a large number of master’s students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University. Thanks to them, the book contains significantly fewer mistakes.
September 2016
Notations
The set of positive integers {1, 2, …}
∪{+∞}
+∪{0}
Real line (−∞, +∞)
∪ {−∞, +∞}
+ The set of non-negative real numbers [0, +∞)
x∨ y max{x, y}
x∧ y min{x, y}
1A The indicator of a set (an event) A: 1A(x) = 1 for x ∈ A; 1A(x) = 0 for x ∈ Ac
E(X), EX The expectation (or mean) of a random variable X
Var(X), Var X The variance of a random variable X
N(a,σ²) Normal distribution with expectation a and variance σ²
X ~ N(a, σ²) A random variable X with distribution N(a, σ²)
φ The standard normal density (the probability density of X ∈ N , x
, x
Random variables X and Y are identically distributed
X Y Random variables X and Y are independent
t The history (or the past) of Brownian motion B up to moment t (Definition 1.2)
H²[0,T] The set of adapted processes X = {Xt, t ∈ [0, T (Definition 1.3)
Ĥ²[0, T] The set of adapted processes X = {Xt, t ∈ [0, T(Definition 1.6)
The stochastic (Itô) integral of a process Y with respect to an Itô process X (Definitions 1.5 and 1.11)
X, Y The (quadratic) covariation of Itô processes X and Y (Definition 1.12)
X = X, X The quadratic variation of an Itô process X (Definition 1.12)
1
Overview of the Basics of Stochastic Analysis
Abstract
, P).
Keywords
Brownian motion; Girsanov theorem; Integrals; Ito’s formula; Martingales; Probability; Stochastic Analysis
1.1 Brownian motion
,