Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes

An important research area in financial mathematics is the study of long memory phenomenon in financial data. Long memory had been known long before suitable stochastic models were developed. Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) can be used to characterize this phenomenon. This thesis examines the use o...

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Main Author: Misiran, Masnita
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Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2010
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description An important research area in financial mathematics is the study of long memory phenomenon in financial data. Long memory had been known long before suitable stochastic models were developed. Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) can be used to characterize this phenomenon. This thesis examines the use of FBM and its long memory parameter H, from the view point of estimation method, approximation, and numerical performance.How to estimate the long memory parameter H is important in financial pricing. This thesis starts by reviewing the performance of some existing preliminary methods for estimating H. It is then applied to some Malaysia financial data. Although these methods are easy to use, their performance are in doubts, in particular these methods can only get an estimator of H, without providing the dynamic, long-memory behaviour of financial price process.This thesis is therefore concerned with the estimation of the dynamic, long-memory behaviour of financial processes. We propose estimation methods based on models of two stochastic differential equations (SDEs) perturbed by FBM, that play important role in option pricing and interest rate modelling. These models are the geometric fractional Brownian motion (GFBM) and the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (FOU) model, respectively. These methods are able to obtain H and other parameters involved in the models. The efficiency of these methods are investigated through simulation study. We applied the new methods to some financial problems.We also extend this study to filtering the SDE driven by FBM in multidimensional case. We propose a novel approximation scheme to this problem. The convergence property is also established. The performance of this method is evaluated through solving some numerical examples. Results demonstrate that methods developed in this thesis are applicable and have advantages when compared with other existing approaches.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-25492017-02-20T06:38:21Z Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes Misiran, Masnita stochastic differential equations (SDEs) numerical performance financial mathematics long memory phenomenon Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) financial data approximation estimation method An important research area in financial mathematics is the study of long memory phenomenon in financial data. Long memory had been known long before suitable stochastic models were developed. Fractional Brownian motion (FBM) can be used to characterize this phenomenon. This thesis examines the use of FBM and its long memory parameter H, from the view point of estimation method, approximation, and numerical performance.How to estimate the long memory parameter H is important in financial pricing. This thesis starts by reviewing the performance of some existing preliminary methods for estimating H. It is then applied to some Malaysia financial data. Although these methods are easy to use, their performance are in doubts, in particular these methods can only get an estimator of H, without providing the dynamic, long-memory behaviour of financial price process.This thesis is therefore concerned with the estimation of the dynamic, long-memory behaviour of financial processes. We propose estimation methods based on models of two stochastic differential equations (SDEs) perturbed by FBM, that play important role in option pricing and interest rate modelling. These models are the geometric fractional Brownian motion (GFBM) and the fractional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (FOU) model, respectively. These methods are able to obtain H and other parameters involved in the models. The efficiency of these methods are investigated through simulation study. We applied the new methods to some financial problems.We also extend this study to filtering the SDE driven by FBM in multidimensional case. We propose a novel approximation scheme to this problem. The convergence property is also established. The performance of this method is evaluated through solving some numerical examples. Results demonstrate that methods developed in this thesis are applicable and have advantages when compared with other existing approaches. 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2549 en Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle stochastic differential equations (SDEs)
numerical performance
financial mathematics
long memory phenomenon
Fractional Brownian motion (FBM)
financial data
approximation
estimation method
Misiran, Masnita
Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title_full Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title_fullStr Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title_full_unstemmed Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title_short Modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
title_sort modeling and pricing financial assets under long memory processes
topic stochastic differential equations (SDEs)
numerical performance
financial mathematics
long memory phenomenon
Fractional Brownian motion (FBM)
financial data
approximation
estimation method
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2549