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Pricing Derivatives on Two Lévy-driven Stocks

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  • Fajardo, J.
  • Mordeckiy, E.

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The aim of this work is to study the pricing problem for derivatives depending on two stocks driven by a bidimensional Lévy process. The main idea is to apply Girsanov's Theorem for Lévy processes, in order to reduce the posed problem to the pricing of a one Lévy driven stock in an auxiliary market, baptized as ``dual market''. In this way, we extend the results obtained by Gerber and Shiu (1996) for two dimensional Brownian motion. Also we examine an existing relation between prices of put and call options, of both the European and the American type. This relation, based on a change of numeraire corresponding to a change of the probability measure through Girsanov's Theorem, is called Put-call duality. It includes as a particular case, the relation known as put-call symmetry. Necessary and sufficient conditions for put-call symmetry to hold are obtained, in terms of the triplet of predictable characteristic of the Lévy process
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  • Fajardo, J. & Mordeckiy, E., 2003. "Pricing Derivatives on Two Lévy-driven Stocks," Finance Lab Working Papers flwp_56, Finance Lab, Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibm:finlab:flwp_56
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    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G13 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Contingent Pricing; Futures Pricing

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