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Abstract
We present an axiomatic characterization of price measures that are superadditive and comonotonic additive for normally distributed random variables. The price representation derived involves a probability measure transform that is closely related to the Esscher transform, and we call it the Esscher-Girsanov transform. In a financial market in which the primary asset price is represented by a stochastic differential equation with respect to Brownian motion, the price mechanism based on the Esscher-Girsanov transform can generate approximate-arbitrage-free financial derivative prices.
Volume
42
Page
540-547
Number
2
Year
2008
Keywords
Derivative pricing; incomplete markets; Stochastic ordering; Esscher transform; Girsanov's theorem; comonotonicity; Equivalent martingale measure; Feynman-Kac integration
Categories
New Valuation Techniques
Publications
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics