SDEs with uniform distributions: Peacocks, conic martingales and mean reverting uniform diffusions
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Author(s)
Brigo, Damiano
Jeanblanc, Monique
Vrins, Frédéric
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Peacocks are increasing processes for the convex order. To any peacock, one can associate martingales with the same marginal laws. We are interested in finding the diffusion associated to the uniform peacock, i.e., the peacock with uniform law at all times on a time-varying support . Following an idea from Dupire (1994), Madan and Yor (2002) propose a construction to find a diffusion martingale associated to a Peacock, under the assumption of existence of a solution to a particular stochastic differential equation (SDE). In this paper we study the SDE associated to the uniform Peacock and give sufficient conditions on the (conic) boundary to have a unique strong or weak solution and analyse the local time at the boundary. Eventually, we focus on the constant support case. Given that the only uniform martingale with time-independent support seems to be a constant, we consider more general (mean-reverting) diffusions. We prove existence of a solution to the related SDE and derive the moments of transition densities. Limit-laws and ergodic results show that the transition law tends to a uniform distribution.
Date Issued
2020-07-01
Date Acceptance
2019-11-04
Citation
Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2020, 130 (7), pp.3895-3919
ISSN
0304-4149
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
3895
End Page
3919
Journal / Book Title
Stochastic Processes and their Applications
Volume
130
Issue
7
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Subjects
math.PR
math.PR
60H10, 60J60
Statistics & Probability
0102 Applied Mathematics
0104 Statistics
1502 Banking, Finance and Investment
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-11-23