Invariance formulas for stopping times of squared Bessel process

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-699
Author(s):  
Jacek Jakubowski ◽  
Maciej Wiśniewolski
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-417
Author(s):  
Kevin Fergusson

AbstractVariable annuities are products offered by pension funds and life offices that provide periodic future payments to the investor and often have ancillary benefits that guarantee survival benefits or sums insured on death. This paper extends the benchmark approach to value and hedge long-dated variable annuities using a combination of cash, bonds and equities under a variety of market models, allowing for dependence between financial and insurance markets. Under a simplified case of independence, the results show that when the discounted index is modelled as a time-transformed squared Bessel process, less-expensive valuation and reserving is achieved regardless of the short rate model or the mortality model.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 1650008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mátyás Barczy ◽  
Gyula Pap

Under natural assumptions, a Feller type diffusion approximation is derived for critical, irreducible multi-type continuous state and continuous time branching processes with immigration. Namely, it is proved that a sequence of appropriately scaled random step functions formed from a critical, irreducible multi-type continuous state and continuous time branching process with immigration converges weakly towards a squared Bessel process supported by a ray determined by the Perron vector of a matrix related to the branching mechanism of the branching process in question.


2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-493
Author(s):  
Jacek Jakubowski ◽  
Maciej Wiśniewolski

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Jonas Al-Hadad ◽  
Zbigniew Palmowski

The main objective of this paper is to present an algorithm of pricing perpetual American put options with asset-dependent discounting. The value function of such an instrument can be described as VAPutω(s)=supτ∈TEs[e−∫0τω(Sw)dw(K−Sτ)+], where T is a family of stopping times, ω is a discount function and E is an expectation taken with respect to a martingale measure. Moreover, we assume that the asset price process St is a geometric Lévy process with negative exponential jumps, i.e., St=seζt+σBt−∑i=1NtYi. The asset-dependent discounting is reflected in the ω function, so this approach is a generalisation of the classic case when ω is constant. It turns out that under certain conditions on the ω function, the value function VAPutω(s) is convex and can be represented in a closed form. We provide an option pricing algorithm in this scenario and we present exact calculations for the particular choices of ω such that VAPutω(s) takes a simplified form.


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