Insiders' Hedging for Jump Diffusion Processes with Applications to Index Tracking

The hedging problem for insiders is very important in the financial market.The locally risk minimizing hedging was adopted to solve this problem.Since the market was incomplete,the minimal martingale measure was chosen as the equivalent martingale measure.By the F-S decomposition,the expression of the locally risk minimizing strategy was presented.Finally,the local risk minimization was applied to index tracking and its relationship with tracking error variance (TEV)-minimizing strategy was obtained.

On pricing of corporate securities in the case of jump-diffusion

Structural models of credit risk are known to present vanishing spreads at very short maturities. This shortcoming, which is due to the diffusive behavior assumed for asset values, can be circumvented by considering discontinuities of the jump type in their evolution over time. In this paper, we extend the pricing model for corporate bond and determine the default probability in jump-diffusion model to address this issue. To make the problem clearly, we first investigate the case that the firm value follows a geometric Brownian motion under similar assumptions to those in Black and Scholes（1973）, Briys and de Varenne（1997）, i.e, the default barrier is KD （t, T） and the recovery rate is （1 -w）, where D （t, T） is the price of zero coupon default free bond and w is a constant （0 〈 w 〈 1）. By changing the numeraire, we obtain the closed-form solution for both the price of bond and default probability. Further, we consider the case of jump-diffusion and suppose that a firm will go bankruptcy if its value Vt 〈 KD （t, T） and at the same time, the bondholder will receive （1 - w） vt/k By introducing the Green function of PDE with absorbing boundary and converting the problem to an II-type Volterra integral equation, we get the closed-form expressions in series form for bond price and corresponding default probability. Numerical results are presented to show the impact of different parameters to credit spread of bond.

On the Pathwise Uniqueness of Solutions of One-dimensional Reflected Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps

In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of the pathwise uniqueness of one-dimensional reflected stochastic differential equations with jumps under the assumption of non-Lipschitz continuous coefficients whose proof are based on the technique of local time.

Study on the model of an insurer's solvency ratio in Markov-modulated Brownian markets

In this paper the insurer＇s solvency ratio model with or without jump diffusion process in the presence of financial distress cost is constructed, where an insurer＇s solvency ratio is characterized by a Markov-modulated dynamics. By Girsanov＇s theorem and the option pricing formula, the expected present value of shareholders＇ terminal payoff is provided.

Valuation and Hedging Strategy of Currency Options under Regime-Switching Jump-Diffusion Model

The main purpose of this thesis is in analyzing and empirically simulating risk minimizing European foreign exchange option pricing and hedging strategy when the spot foreign exchange rate is governed by a Markov-modulated jump-diffusion model. The domestic and foreign money market interest rates, the drift and the volatility of the exchange rate dynamics all depend on a continuous-time hidden Markov chain which can be interpreted as the states of a macro-economy. In this paper, we will provide a practical lognormal diffusion dynamic of the spot foreign exchange rate for market practitioners. We employing the minimal martingale measure to demonstrate a system of coupled partial-differential-integral equations satisfied by the currency option price and attain the corresponding hedging schemes and the residual risk. Numerical simulations of the double exponential jump diffusion regime-switching model are used to illustrate the different effects of the various parameters on currency option prices.

BSDEs with Jumps and Path-Dependent Parabolic Integro-differential Equations

This paper deals with backward stochastic differential equations with jumps,whose data(the terminal condition and coefficient) are given functions of jump-diffusion process paths. The author introduces a type of nonlinear path-dependent parabolic integrodifferential equations, and then obtains a new type of nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula related to such BSDEs with jumps under some regularity conditions.