Journal of Computational Finance

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Transform analysis and asset pricing for diffusion processes: a recursvie approach

Marc J. Goovaerts, Roger J. A. Laeven and Zhaoning Shang

ABSTRACT

Diffusion processes play a major role in continuous-time modeling in economics, particularly in continuous-time finance. In most cases, however, the transition density function of a diffusion process is not available in closed form. Using Feynman-Kac integration, we construct a recursive scheme for the Laplace transform (in time) of the transition density function. This provides a semianalytic and highly accurate solution to a wide range of asset pricing problems. Generalizations of our technique to functionals of non-Gaussian processes are also briefly discussed.

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