ABSTRACT

Consider an arbitrage-free market where asset prices are modelled by a stochastic process

(S t ) t[0,T] , represents the history of the asset S and

t the discounted value

of the asset. In Chapter 9 we saw that in such a market, the prices of all instruments may be computed as discounted expectations of their terminal payoffs with respect to some

martingale measure such that:

Under the pricing rule given by the value t

on an

underlying asset S t is given by:

(11.1)

also called the “risk-neutral” or “risk-adjusted” dynamics of S.