{"title":"Maximizing the Mean Exit Time of a Brownian Motion from an Interval","authors":"M. Lefebvre","doi":"10.1155/2011/296259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/296259","url":null,"abstract":"Let be a controlled one-dimensional standard Brownian motion starting from . The problem of optimally controlling until for the first time is solved explicitly in a particular case. The maximal value that the instantaneous reward given for survival in can take is determined.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125977890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Stochastic Two Species Competition Model: Nonequilibrium Fluctuation and Stability","authors":"G. Samanta","doi":"10.1155/2011/489386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/489386","url":null,"abstract":"The object of this paper is to study the stability behaviours of the deterministic and stochastic versions of a two-species symmetric competition model. The logistic parameters of the competitive species are perturbed by colored noises or Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes due to random environment. The Fokker-Planck equation has been used to obtain probability density functions. Here, we have also discussed the relationship between stability behaviours of this model in a deterministic environment and the corresponding model in a stochastic environment.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114222588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A -Weibull Counting Process through a Fractional Differential Operator","authors":"K. Muralidharan, S. S. Nair","doi":"10.1155/2011/797656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/797656","url":null,"abstract":"We use the -Weibull distribution and define a new counting process using the fractional order. As a consequence, we introduce a -process with -Weibull interarrival times. Some interesting special cases are also discussed which leads to a Mittag-Leffler form.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130730104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Passage Time Moments of Jump-Diffusions with Markovian Switching","authors":"Jun Peng, Zaiming Liu","doi":"10.1155/2011/501360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/501360","url":null,"abstract":"Using an integral equation associated with generalized backward Kolmogorov's equation for the transition probability density function, recurrence relations are derived for the moments of the time of first exit of jump-diffusions with Markovian switching. The results are used to find the expectation of first passage time of some financial models.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122088836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal Harvesting When the Exchange Rate Is a Semimartingale","authors":"E. Offen, E. Lungu","doi":"10.1155/2011/942478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/942478","url":null,"abstract":"We consider harvesting in the Black-Scholes Quanto Market when the exchange rate is being modeled by the process 𝐸𝑡=𝐸0exp{𝑋𝑡}, where 𝑋𝑡 is a semimartingale, and we ask the following question: What harvesting strategy 𝛾∗ and the value function Φ maximize the expected total income of an investment? We formulate a singular stochastic control problem and give sufficient conditions for the existence of an optimal strategy. We found that, if the value function is not too sensitive to changes in the prices of the investments, the problem reduces to that of Lungu and Øksendal. However, the general solution of this problem still remains elusive.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129314221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large Deviations for Stochastic Differential Equations on Associated with the Critical Sobolev Brownian Vector Fields","authors":"Qinghua Wang","doi":"10.1155/2011/840908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/840908","url":null,"abstract":"We obtain a large deviation principle for the stochastic differential equations on the sphere associated with the critical Sobolev Brownian vector fields.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124276435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion Approximations of the Geometric Markov Renewal Processes and Option Price Formulas","authors":"A. Swishchuk, M. S. Islam","doi":"10.1155/2010/347105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/347105","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the geometric Markov renewal processes as a model for a security market and study this processes in a diffusion approximation scheme. Weak convergence analysis and rates of convergence of ergodic geometric Markov renewal processes in diffusion scheme are presented. We present European call option pricing formulas in the case of ergodic, double-averaged, and merged diffusion geometric Markov renewal processes.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131568559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Markov Regime-Switching Marked Point Process for Short-Rate Analysis with Credit Risk","authors":"T. Siu","doi":"10.1155/2010/870516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/870516","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a Markov, regime-switching, marked point process for the short-term\u0000interest rate in a market. The intensity of the marked point process is a\u0000bounded, predictable process and is modulated by two observable factors. One is\u0000an economic factor described by a diffusion process, and another one is described\u0000by a Markov chain. The states of the chain are interpreted as different rating\u0000categories of corporate credit ratings issued by rating agencies. We consider a\u0000general pricing kernel which can explicitly price economic, market, and credit\u0000risks. It is shown that the price of a pure discount bond satisfies a system of\u0000coupled partial differential-integral equations under a risk-adjusted measure.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"2010 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129731823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time Reversal of Volterra Processes Driven Stochastic Differential Equations","authors":"L. Decreusefond","doi":"10.1155/2013/790709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/790709","url":null,"abstract":"We consider stochastic differential equations driven by some Volterra processes. Under time reversal, these equations are transformed into past-dependent stochastic differential equations driven by a standard Brownian motion. We are then in position to derive existence and uniqueness of solutions of the Volterra driven SDE considered at the beginning.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121289973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stochastic Integration in Abstract Spaces","authors":"J. K. Brooks, J. Koziński","doi":"10.1155/2010/217372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/217372","url":null,"abstract":"We establish the existence of a stochastic integral in a nuclear space setting as follows. Let 𝐸, 𝐹, and 𝐺 be nuclear spaces which satisfy the following conditions: the spaces are reflexive, complete, bornological spaces such that their strong duals also satisfy these conditions. Assume that there is a continuous bilinear mapping of 𝐸×𝐹 into 𝐺. If 𝐻 is an integrable, 𝐸-valued predictable process and 𝑋 is an 𝐹-valued square integrable martingale, then there exists a 𝐺-valued process (∫𝐻𝑑𝑋)𝑡 called the stochastic integral. The Lebesgue space of these integrable processes is studied and convergence theorems are given. Extensions to general locally convex spaces are presented.","PeriodicalId":196477,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Stochastic Analysis","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132257330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}