Stochastic model for market stocks with floors
Abstract
We present a model to describe the stochastic evolution of stocks that show a strong resistance at some level and generalize to this situation the evolution based upon geometric Brownian motion. If volatility and drift are related in a certain way we show that our model can be integrated in an exact way. The related problem of how to prize general securities that pay dividends at a continuous rate and earn a terminal payoff at maturity T is solved via the martingale probability approach.
- Publication:
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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Pub Date:
- August 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.024
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0608019
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhyA..382..321V
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Physics and Society;
- Quantitative Finance - Pricing of Securities
- E-Print:
- Proceedings of the conference APFA5