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Lévy processes and infinitely divisible distributions

01 Jan 2013-
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the distributional properties of Levy processes and propose a potential theory for Levy processes, which is based on the Wiener-Hopf factorization.
Abstract: Preface to the revised edition Remarks on notation 1. Basic examples 2. Characterization and existence 3. Stable processes and their extensions 4. The Levy-Ito decomposition of sample functions 5. Distributional properties of Levy processes 6. Subordination and density transformation 7. Recurrence and transience 8. Potential theory for Levy processes 9. Wiener-Hopf factorizations 10. More distributional properties Supplement Solutions to exercises References and author index Subject index.
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01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: In this article, Kloeden, P., Ombach, J., Cyganowski, S., Kostrikin, A. J., Reddy, J.A., Pokrovskii, A., Shafarevich, I.A.
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  • ...There can be no doubt, particularly to the more experienced reader, that the current text has been heavily influenced by the outstanding books of Bertoin (1996) and Sato (1999), and especially the former which also takes a predominantly pathwise approach to its content....

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  • ...See Zolotarev (1986), Sato (1999) and (Samorodnitsky and Taqqu, 1994) for further details of all the facts given in this paragraph....

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  • ...The interested reader is referred to Lukacs (1970) or Sato (1999), to name but two of many possible references....

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TL;DR: In this article, several definitions of the Riesz fractional Laplace operator in R^d have been studied, including singular integrals, semigroups of operators, Bochner's subordination, and harmonic extensions.
Abstract: This article reviews several definitions of the fractional Laplace operator (-Delta)^{alpha/2} (0 < alpha < 2) in R^d, also known as the Riesz fractional derivative operator, as an operator on Lebesgue spaces L^p, on the space C_0 of continuous functions vanishing at infinity and on the space C_{bu} of bounded uniformly continuous functions. Among these definitions are ones involving singular integrals, semigroups of operators, Bochner's subordination and harmonic extensions. We collect and extend known results in order to prove that all these definitions agree: on each of the function spaces considered, the corresponding operators have common domain and they coincide on that common domain.

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  • ...Yet another way to show (10) involves vague convergence of tpt(z)dz to ν(z)dz = cd,α|z|dz as t → 0, which is a general result in the theory of convolution semigroups, see [43]....

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TL;DR: A closed formula for prices of perpetual American call options in terms of the overall supremum of the Lévy process, and a corresponding closed formulas for perpetual American put options involving the infimum of the after-mentioned process are obtained.
Abstract: Consider a model of a financial market with a stock driven by a Levy process and constant interest rate. A closed formula for prices of perpetual American call options in terms of the overall supremum of the Levy process, and a corresponding closed formula for perpetual American put options involving the infimum of the after-mentioned process are obtained. As a direct application of the previous results, a Black-Scholes type formula is given. Also as a consequence, simple explicit formulas for prices of call options are obtained for a Levy process with positive mixed-exponential and arbitrary negative jumps. In the case of put options, similar simple formulas are obtained under the condition of negative mixed-exponential and arbitrary positive jumps. Risk-neutral valuation is discussed and a simple jump-diffusion model is chosen to illustrate the results.

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TL;DR: For the isotropic unimodal probability convolutional semigroups, this article gave sharp bounds for their Levy-Khintchine exponent with Matuszewska indices strictly between 0 and 2.

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01 May 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review work on extreme events, their causes and consequences, by a group of European and American researchers involved in a three-year project on these topics.
Abstract: We review work on extreme events, their causes and consequences, by a group of European and American researchers involved in a three-year project on these topics. The review covers theoretical aspects of time series analysis and of extreme value theory, as well as of the deterministic modeling of extreme events, via continuous and discrete dynamic models. The applications include climatic, seismic and socio-economic events, along with their prediction. Two important results refer to (i) the complementarity of spectral analysis of a time series in terms of the continuous and the discrete part of its power spectrum; and (ii) the need for coupled modeling of natural and socio-economic systems. Both these results have implications for the study and prediction of natural hazards and their human impacts.

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TL;DR: In this article, a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type is considered.
Abstract: We consider a scalar reaction-diffusion equation in one spatial dimension with bistable nonlinearity and a nonlocal space-fractional diffusion operator of Riesz-Feller type. We present our analytical results on the existence, uniqueness (up to translations) and stability of a traveling wave solution connecting two stable homogeneous steady states. Moreover, we review numerical methods for the case of reaction-diffusion equations with fractional Laplacian and discuss possible extensions to our reaction-diffusion equations with Riesz-Feller operators. In particular, we present a direct method using integral operator discretization in combination with projection boundary conditions to visualize our analytical results about traveling waves.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the multivariate construction for Levy processes introduced by Ballotta and Bonfiglioli (2014) to propose an integrated model for the joint dynamics of FX exchange rates and asset prices.
Abstract: In this paper we apply the multivariate construction for Levy processes introduced by Ballotta and Bonfiglioli (2014) to propose an integrated model for the joint dynamics of FX exchange rates and asset prices. We show that the proposed construction is consistent in terms of symmetries with respect to inversion and triangulation, and provides an insight into the quanto adjustment showing that this is affected by higher order cumulants of the pure jump part of the systematic risk factor. Using the Esscher transform, we relate Quanto options to vanilla call and put options, which allows for a fast calibration method to the vanilla and the Quanto market. As Quanto products offer significant exposure to the correlation between exchange rates and asset prices, they allow access to a market implied measure of this correlation. By means of a joint calibration exercise to the CME USD denominated Quanto futures on the Nikkei 225 index and both the Nikkei 225 and USDJPY market implied volatilities, we illustrate this approach for the case in which the driving process is assumed to be a Variance Gamma process.

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TL;DR: In this article, the uniform boundary Harnack principle in general open sets for harmonic functions with respect to a large class of rotationally symmetric purely discontinuous L\'evy processes was proved.
Abstract: In this paper we prove the uniform boundary Harnack principle in general open sets for harmonic functions with respect to a large class of rotationally symmetric purely discontinuous L\'evy processes.

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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new flexible dynamic stochastic models for the evolution of market prices and new methods for the valuation of derivatives, which build on the recently characterized class of polynomial jump-diffusion processes for which the conditional moments are analytic.
Abstract: This thesis presents new flexible dynamic stochastic models for the evolution of market prices and new methods for the valuation of derivatives. These models and methods build on the recently characterized class of polynomial jump-diffusion processes for which the conditional moments are analytic. The first half of this thesis is concerned with modelling the fluctuations in the volatility of stock prices, and with the valuation of options on the stock. A new stochastic volatility model for which the squared volatility follows a Jacobi process is presented in the first chapter. The stock price volatility is allowed to continuously fluctuate between a lower and an upper bound, and option prices have closed-form series representations when their payoff functions depend on the stock price at finitely many dates. Truncating these series at some finite order entails accurate option price approximations. This method builds on the series expansion of the ratio between the log price density and an auxiliary density, with respect to an orthonormal basis of polynomials in a weighted Lebesgue space. When the payoff functions can be similarly expanded, the method is particularly efficient computationally. In the second chapter, more flexible choices of weighted spaces are studied in order to obtain new series representations for option prices with faster convergence rates. The option price approximation method can then be applied to various stochastic volatility models. The second half of this thesis is concerned with modelling the default times of firms, and with the pricing of credit risk securities. A new class of credit risk models in which the firm default probability is linear in the factors is presented in the third chapter. The prices of defaultable bonds and credit default swaps have explicit linear-rational expressions in the factors. A polynomial model with compact support and bounded default intensities is developed. This property is exploited to approximate credit derivatives prices by interpolating their payoff functions with polynomials. In the fourth chapter, the joint term structure of default probabilities is flexibly modelled using factor copulas. A generic static framework is developed in which the prices of high dimensional and complex credit securities can be efficiently and exactly computed. Dynamic credit risk models with significant default dependence can in turn be constructed by combining polynomial factor copulas and linear credit risk models.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered multidimensional polynomial Euler products with complex coefficients and gave necessary and sufficient conditions for them to generate infinitely divisible, quasi-infinitely divisible but not even characteristic functions by using Baker's theorem.
Abstract: In the present paper, we treat multidimensional polynomial Euler products with complex coefficients on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the multidimensional polynomial Euler products to generate infinitely divisible, quasi-infinitely divisible but non-infinitely divisible or not even characteristic functions by using Baker's theorem. Moreover, we give many examples of zeta distributions on ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ generated by the multidimensional polynomial Euler products with complex coefficients. Finally, we consider applications to analytic number theory.

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