Methodol Comput Appl Probab
DOI 10.1007/s11009-015-9462-7
Option Pricing Under Jump-Diffusion Processes
with Regime Switching
Nikita Ratanov
1
Received: 11 May 2015 / Revised: 18 August 2015 / Accepted: 1 September 2015
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Abstract We study an incomplete market model, based on jump-diffusion processes with
parameters that are switched at random times. The set of equivalent martingale measures
is determined. An analogue of the fundamental equation for the option price is derived.
In the case of the two-state hidden Markov process we obtain explicit formulae for the
option prices. Furthermore, we numerically compare the results corresponding to different
equivalent martingale measures.
Keywords Jump-telegraph process · Jump-diffusion process · Martingales · Relative
entropy · Financial modelling · Option pricing · Esscher transform
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010) 91B28 · 60G44 · 60J75 · 60K99
1 Introduction
Consider the jump-diffusion process with time-dependent deterministic driving parameters
that are simultaneously switched at random times,
X(t) = T
c
(t) + J
h
(t) + W
σ
(t), t ≥ 0.
Here T
c
is path-by-path integral of the alternating at random times velocity regimes c
i
(t),
J
h
we denote the associated pure jump part, i.e. the stochastic integral w.r.t. counting pro-
cess N = N(t) applied to the alternating functions h
i
(t), and W
σ
denotes the Wiener
part, defined by the stochastic integral (w.r.t. Brownian motion B) of the process, which
is formed by deterministic functions σ
i
(t), i ∈ D, D := {1,...,d },d ≥ 2, alternating
simultaneously with T
c
and J
h
.
Nikita Ratanov
nratanov@urosario.edu.co
1
Universidad del Rosario, Cl. 12c, No.4-69, Bogot´ a, Colombia