Levy Random Bridges and the Modelling of Financial Information

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2009-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3652v2

Economy

Quantitative Finance

General Finance

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The information-based asset-pricing framework of Brody, Hughston and Macrina (BHM) is extended to include a wider class of models for market information. In the BHM framework, each asset is associated with a collection of random cash flows. The price of the asset is the sum of the discounted conditional expectations of the cash flows. The conditional expectations are taken with respect to a filtration generated by a set of "information processes". The information processes carry imperfect information about the cash flows. To model the flow of information, we introduce in this paper a class of processes which we term Levy random bridges (LRBs). This class generalises the Brownian bridge and gamma bridge information processes considered by BHM. An LRB is defined over a finite time horizon. Conditioned on its terminal value, an LRB is identical in law to a Levy bridge. We consider in detail the case where the asset generates a single cash flow $X_T$ occurring at a fixed date $T$. The flow of market information about $X_T$ is modelled by an LRB terminating at the date $T$ with the property that the (random) terminal value of the LRB is equal to $X_T$. An explicit expression for the price process of such an asset is found by working out the discounted conditional expectation of $X_T$ with respect to the natural filtration of the LRB. The prices of European options on such an asset are calculated.

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