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Martingale Approach to Pricing and Hedging Chapter 7 Martingale Approach to Pricing and Hedging In the martingale approach to the pricing and hedging of financial deriva- tives, option prices are expressed as the expected values of discounted option payoffs. This approach relies on the construction of risk-neutral probability measures by the Girsanov theorem, and the associated hedging portfolios are obtained via stochastic integral representations. 7.1 Martingale Property of the Itô Integral . 255 7.2 Risk-neutral Probability Measures . 260 7.3 Change of Measure and the Girsanov Theorem . 264 7.4 Pricing by the Martingale Method . 266 7.5 Hedging by the Martingale Method . 274 Exercises . 280 7.1 Martingale Property of the Itô Integral Recall (Definition 5.5) that an integrable process (Xt)t∈R+ is said to be a martingale with respect to the filtration (Ft)t∈R+ if E[Xt | Fs] = Xs, 0 6 s 6 t. In the sequel, L2(W) := {F : W → R : E[|F |2] < ∞} denotes the space of square-integrable random variables. Examples of martingales (i) 2 1. Given F ∈ L (W) a square-integrable random variable and (Ft)t∈R+ a filtration, the process (Xt)t∈R+ defined by Xt := E[F | Ft], t > 0, 255 " This version: July 4, 2021 https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/nprivault/indext.html N. Privault is an (Ft)t∈R+ -martingale under P. Indeed, since Fs ⊂ Ft, 0 6 s 6 t, it follows from the tower property (23.38) of conditional expectations that E[Xt | Fs] = E[E[F | Ft] | Fs] = E[F | Fs] = Xs, 0 6 s 6 t. (7.1) 2. Any integrable stochastic process (Xt)t∈R+ whose increments (Xt1 − Xt0 , ... , Xtn − Xtn−1 ) are mutually independent and centered under P (i.e. E[Xt] = 0, t ∈ R+) is a martingale with respect to the filtration (Ft)t∈R+ generated by (Xt)t∈R+ , as we have E[Xt | Fs] = E[Xt − Xs + Xs | Fs] = E[Xt − Xs | Fs] + E[Xs | Fs] = E[Xt − Xs] + Xs = Xs, 0 6 s 6 t. (7.2) In particular, the standard Brownian motion (Bt)t∈R+ is a martingale because it has centered and independent increments. This fact is also consequence of Proposition 7.1 below as Bt can be written as t Bt = dBs, t 0. w0 > The following result shows that the Itô integral yields a martingale with respect to the Brownian filtration (Ft)t∈R+ . It is the continuous-time analog of the discrete-time Theorem 2.11. t Proposition 7.1. The stochastic integral process 0 usdBs of a square- r t∈R+ 2 integrable adapted process u ∈ Lad(W × R+) is a martingale, i.e.: t s E uτ dBτ Fs = uτ dBτ , 0 s t. (7.3) w0 w0 6 6 t In particular, u dB is F -measurable, t 0, and since F = {∅, W}, r0 s s t > 0 Relation (7.3) applied with t = 0 recovers the fact that the Itô integral is a centered random variable: t t 0 E usdBs = E usdBs F0 = usdBs = 0, t 0. w0 w0 w0 > Proof. The statement is first proved in case (ut)t∈R+ is a simple predictable process, and then extended to the general case, cf. e.g. Proposition 2.5.7 in Privault(2009). For example, for u a predictable step process of the form F if s ∈ [a, b], 1 us := F [a,b](s) = 0 if s ∈/ [a, b], 256 " This version: July 4, 2021 https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/nprivault/indext.html Notes on Stochastic Finance with F an Fa-measurable random variable and t ∈ [a, b], by Definition 4.16 we have h ∞ i h ∞ i 1 E usdBs Ft = E F a,b (s)dBs Ft w0 w0 [ ] = E[F (Bb − Ba) | Ft] = F E[Bb − Ba | Ft] = F (Bt − Ba) t = usdBs wa t = usdBs, a t b. w0 6 6 On the other hand, when t ∈ [0, a] we have t usdBs = 0, w0 and we check that h ∞ i h ∞ i 1 E usdBs Ft = E F a,b (s)dBs Ft w0 w0 [ ] = E[F (Bb − Ba) | Ft] = E[E[F (Bb − Ba) | Fa] | Ft] = E[F E[Bb − Ba | Fa] | Ft] = 0, 0 6 t 6 a, where we used the tower property (23.38) of conditional expectations and the fact that Brownian motion (Bt)t∈R+ is a martingale: E[Bb − Ba | Fa] = E[Bb | Fa] − Ba = Ba − Ba = 0. 2 The extension from simple processes to square-integrable processes in Lad(W × (n) R+) can be proved as in Proposition 4.20. Indeed, given u n∈N be a sequence of simple predictable processes converging to u in L2(W × [0, T ]) cf. Lemma 1.1 of Ikeda and Watanabe(1989), pages 22 and 46, by Fatou’s Lemma 23.4 and Jensen’s inequality we have: " # t h ∞ i2 E usdBs − E usdBs Ft w0 w0 " 2# t (n) h ∞ i lim inf E us dBs − E usdBs Ft 6 n→∞ w0 w0 h ∞ (n) ∞ i2 = lim inf E E us dBs − usdBs Ft n→∞ w0 w0 257 " This version: July 4, 2021 https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/nprivault/indext.html N. Privault ∞ (n) ∞ 2 lim inf E E us dBs − usdBs Ft 6 n→∞ w0 w0 ∞ (n) 2 = lim inf E (us − us)dBs n→∞ w0 h ∞ (n) 2 i = lim inf E |us − us| ds n→∞ w0 (n) 2 = lim inf ku − uk 2 n→∞ L (W×[0,T ]) = 0, where we used the Itô isometry (4.16). We conclude that h ∞ i t E usdBs Ft = usdBs, t 0, w0 w0 > 2 for u ∈ Lad(W × R+) a square-integrable adapted process, which leads to 1 (7.3) after applying this identity to the process ( [0,t]us)s∈R+ , i.e., t h ∞ i 1 E uτ dBτ Fs = E 0,t (τ)uτ dBτ Fs w0 w0 [ ] s 1 = 0,t (τ)uτ dBτ w0 [ ] s = uτ dBτ , 0 s t. w0 6 6 Examples of martingales (ii) 1. The driftless geometric Brownian motion 2 σBt−σ t/2 Xt := X0 e is a martingale. Indeed, we have 2 σBt−σ t/2 E[Xt | Fs] = E X0 e | Fs 2 −σ t/2 σBt = X0 e E e | Fs 2 −σ t/2 (Bt−Bs)σ+σBs = X0 e E e | Fs 2 −σ t/2+σBs (Bt−Bs)σ = X0 e E e | Fs 2 −σ t/2+σBs (Bt−Bs)σ = X0 e E e 2 −σ t/2+σBs 1 = X0 e exp E[(Bt − Bs)σ] + Var[(Bt − Bs)σ] 2 2 2 −σ t/2+σBs (t−s)σ /2 = X0 e e 258 " This version: July 4, 2021 https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/nprivault/indext.html Notes on Stochastic Finance 2 σBs−σ s/2 = X0 e = Xs, 0 6 s 6 t. This fact can also be recovered from Proposition 7.1, since by Proposi- tion 5.16, (Xt)t∈R+ satisfies the stochastic differential equation dXt = σXtdBt, which shows that Xt can be written using the Brownian stochastic inte- gral t Xt = X0 + σ XudBu, t 0. w0 > 2. Consider an asset price process (St)t∈R+ given by the stochastic differ- ential equation dSt = µStdt + σStdBt, t > 0. (7.4) By the Discounting Lemma 5.14, the discounted asset price process Set := −rt e St, t > 0, satisfies the stochastic differential equation dSet = (µ − r)Setdt + σSetdBt, and the discounted asset price 2 −rt (µ−r)t+σBt−σ t/2 Set = e St = S0 e , t > 0, is a martingale under P when µ = r. The case µ 6= r will be treated in Section 7.3 using risk-neutral probability measures, see Definition 5.4, and the Girsanov Theorem 7.3, see (7.15) below. 3. The discounted value −rt Vet = e Vt, t > 0, of a self-financing portfolio is given by t Vet = Ve0 + ξudSeu, t 0, w0 > cf. Lemma 5.15 is a martingale when µ = r by Proposition 7.1 because t Vet = Ve0 + σ ξuSeudBu, t 0, , w0 > since we have dSet = Set((µ − r)dt + σdBt) = σSetdBt 259 " This version: July 4, 2021 https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/nprivault/indext.html N. Privault by the Discounting Lemma 5.14. Since the Black-Scholes theory is in fact valid for any value of the parameter µ we will look forward to including the case µ 6= r in the sequel. 7.2 Risk-neutral Probability Measures Recall that by definition, a risk-neutral measure is a probability measure P∗ under which the discounted asset price process −rt Set := ( e St)t∈R t∈R+ + is a martingale, see Definition 5.4 and Proposition 5.6. Consider an asset price process (St)t∈R+ given by the stochastic differential equation (7.4). Note that when µ = r, the discounted asset price process 2 σBt−σ t/2 ∗ Set = (S0 e )t∈R is a martingale under P = P, which is a t∈R+ + risk-neutral probability measure. In this section, we address the construction of a risk-neutral probability measure P∗ in the general case µ 6= r using the Girsanov Theorem 7.3 below. For this, we note that by the Discounting Lemma 5.14, the relation dSet = (µ − r)Setdt + σSetdBt where µ − r is the risk premium, can be rewritten as dSet = σSetdBbt, (7.5) where (Bbt)t∈R+ is a drifted Brownian motion given by µ − r Bbt := t + Bt, t 0, σ > where the drift coefficient ν := (µ − r)/σ is the “Market Price of Risk” (MPoR).
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