An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes
We present an explicit solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem for spectrally negative L\'evy processes. Given a process $X$ and a target measure $\mu$ satisfying an explicit admissibility condition we define functions $\f_\pm$ such that the stopping time $T = \inf\{t>0: X_t \in \{-\...
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| description | We present an explicit solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem for spectrally negative L\'evy processes. Given a process $X$ and a target measure $\mu$ satisfying an explicit admissibility condition we define functions $\f_\pm$ such that the stopping time $T = \inf\{t>0: X_t \in \{-\f_-(L_t), \f_+(L_t)\}\}$ induces $X_T\sim \mu$. We also treat versions of $T$ which take into account the sign of the excursion straddling time $t$. We prove that our stopping times are minimal and we describe criteria under which they are integrable. We compare our solution with the one proposed by Bertoin and Le Jan (1992) and we compute explicitly their general quantities in our setup. Our method relies on some new explicit calculations relating scale functions and the It\^o excursion measure of $X$. More precisely, we compute the joint law of the maximum and minimum of an excursion away from 0 in terms of the scale function. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:e82956d5-9d81-4032-ba4e-378acb80fd602022-03-27T10:44:38ZAn explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:e82956d5-9d81-4032-ba4e-378acb80fd60EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2007Obloj, JPistorius, MWe present an explicit solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem for spectrally negative L\'evy processes. Given a process $X$ and a target measure $\mu$ satisfying an explicit admissibility condition we define functions $\f_\pm$ such that the stopping time $T = \inf\{t>0: X_t \in \{-\f_-(L_t), \f_+(L_t)\}\}$ induces $X_T\sim \mu$. We also treat versions of $T$ which take into account the sign of the excursion straddling time $t$. We prove that our stopping times are minimal and we describe criteria under which they are integrable. We compare our solution with the one proposed by Bertoin and Le Jan (1992) and we compute explicitly their general quantities in our setup. Our method relies on some new explicit calculations relating scale functions and the It\^o excursion measure of $X$. More precisely, we compute the joint law of the maximum and minimum of an excursion away from 0 in terms of the scale function. |
| spellingShingle | Obloj, J Pistorius, M An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title | An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title_full | An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title_fullStr | An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title_full_unstemmed | An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title_short | An explicit Skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative Levy processes |
| title_sort | explicit skorokhod embedding for spectrally negative levy processes |
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