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Conditional Law of the Hitting Time for a Lévy Process in Incomplete Observation
IMT, University of Toulouse, France
F.S.T, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
- 1 IMT, University of Toulouse, France
- 2 F.S.T, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal
Journal of Mathematical Finance·Volume 05 (2015)·Pages 505–524·Published 26 November 2015·DOI10.4236/jmf.2015.55041
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Abstract
We study the default risk in incomplete information. That means we model the value of a firm by a Lévy process which is the sum of a Brownian motion with drift and a compound Poisson process. This Lévy process cannot be completely observed, and another process represents the available information on the firm. We obtain a stochastic Volterra equation satisfied by the conditional density of the default time given the available information. The uniqueness of solution of this equation is proved. Numerical examples of (conditional) density are also given.
KeywordsConditional DensityDefault TimeLévy ProcessesFiltering TheoryStochastic Voltera Equations
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