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A class of complete benchmark models with intensity-based jumps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Eckhard Platen*
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Sydney
*
∗ Postal address: School of Finance and Economics and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia. Email address: eckhard.platen@uts.edu.au

Abstract

This paper proposes a class of complete financial market models, the benchmark models, with security price processes that exhibit intensity-based jumps. The benchmark or reference unit is chosen to be the growth-optimal portfolio. Primary security account prices, when expressed in units of the benchmark, turn out to be local martingales. In the proposed framework an equivalent risk-neutral measure need not exist. Benchmarked fair derivative prices are obtained as conditional expectations of future benchmarked prices under the real-world probability measure. This concept of fair pricing generalizes the classical risk-neutral approach and the actuarial present-value pricing methodology.

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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2004 

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