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15-447: Results of this type were first proved by Cameron-Martin in the 1940s and by Igor Girsanov in 1960. They have been subsequently extended to more general classes of process culminating in the general form of Lenglart (1977). Girsanov's theorem is important in the general theory of stochastic processes since it enables the key result that if Q is a measure that is absolutely continuous with respect to P then every P -semimartingale

30-462: A Brownian motion. Here μ {\displaystyle \mu } and σ {\displaystyle \sigma } are fixed deterministic functions. We assume that this equation has a unique strong solution on [ 0 , T ] {\displaystyle [0,T]} . In this case Girsanov's theorem may be used to compute functionals of X t {\displaystyle X_{t}} directly in terms

45-476: A measurable process adapted to the natural filtration of the Wiener process { F t W } {\displaystyle \{{\mathcal {F}}_{t}^{W}\}} ; we assume that the usual conditions have been satisfied. Given an adapted process X t {\displaystyle X_{t}} define where E ( X ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}(X)}

60-874: A related functional for Brownian motion. More specifically, we have for any bounded functional Φ {\displaystyle \Phi } on continuous functions C ( [ 0 , T ] ) {\displaystyle C([0,T])} that E Φ ( X ) = E [ Φ ( W ) exp ⁡ ( ∫ 0 T μ ( s , W s ) d W s − 1 2 ∫ 0 T μ ( s , W s ) 2 d s ) ] . {\displaystyle E\Phi (X)=E\left[\Phi (W)\exp \left(\int _{0}^{T}\mu (s,W_{s})dW_{s}-{\frac {1}{2}}\int _{0}^{T}\mu (s,W_{s})^{2}ds\right)\right].} This follows by applying Girsanov's theorem, and

75-603: Is a Q -semimartingale. We state the theorem first for the special case when the underlying stochastic process is a Wiener process . This special case is sufficient for risk-neutral pricing in the Black–Scholes model . Let { W t } {\displaystyle \{W_{t}\}} be a Wiener process on the Wiener probability space { Ω , F , P } {\displaystyle \{\Omega ,{\mathcal {F}},P\}} . Let X t {\displaystyle X_{t}} be

90-2074: Is a Q Brownian motion. In particular, we see that the right-hand side may be written as E Q [ Φ ( W ) ] {\displaystyle E_{Q}[\Phi (W)]} , where Q is the measure taken with respect to the process Y, so the result now is just the statement of Girsanov's theorem. A more general form of this application is that if both d X t = μ ( X t , t ) d t + σ ( X t , t ) d W t , {\displaystyle dX_{t}=\mu (X_{t},t)dt+\sigma (X_{t},t)dW_{t},} d Y t = ( μ ( Y t , t ) + ν ( Y t , t ) ) d t + σ ( Y t , t ) d W t , {\displaystyle dY_{t}=(\mu (Y_{t},t)+\nu (Y_{t},t))dt+\sigma (Y_{t},t)dW_{t},} admit unique strong solutions on [ 0 , T ] {\displaystyle [0,T]} , then for any bounded functional on C ( [ 0 , T ] ) {\displaystyle C([0,T])} , we have that E Φ ( X ) = E [ Φ ( Y ) exp ⁡ ( − ∫ 0 T ν ( Y s , s ) σ ( Y s , s ) d W s − 1 2 ∫ 0 T ν ( Y s , s ) 2 σ ( Y s , s ) 2 d s ) ] . {\displaystyle E\Phi (X)=E\left[\Phi (Y)\exp \left(-\int _{0}^{T}{\frac {\nu (Y_{s},s)}{\sigma (Y_{s},s)}}dW_{s}-{\frac {1}{2}}\int _{0}^{T}{\frac {\nu (Y_{s},s)^{2}}{\sigma (Y_{s},s)^{2}}}ds\right)\right].} Igor Girsanov Too Many Requests If you report this error to

105-575: Is a Q Brownian motion. Rewriting this in differential form as d W t = d W ~ t + μ ( t , W t ) d t , {\displaystyle dW_{t}=d{\tilde {W}}_{t}+\mu (t,W_{t})dt,} we see that the law of W t {\displaystyle W_{t}} under Q solves the equation defining X t {\displaystyle X_{t}} , as W ~ t {\displaystyle {\tilde {W}}_{t}}

120-441: Is a continuous process and W is Brownian motion under measure P then is Brownian motion under Q . The fact that W ~ t {\displaystyle {\tilde {W}}_{t}} is continuous is trivial; by Girsanov's theorem it is a Q local martingale, and by computing it follows by Levy's characterization of Brownian motion that this is a Q Brownian motion. In many common applications,

135-600: Is not equivalent to P on F ∞ {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}_{\infty }} as this would only be the case if the Radon–Nikodym derivative were a uniformly integrable martingale, which the exponential martingale described above is not. On the other hand, as long as Novikov's condition is satisfied the measures are equivalent on F T {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}_{T}} . Additionally, then combining this above observation in this case, we see that

150-498: Is the stochastic exponential of X with respect to W , i.e. and [ X ] t {\displaystyle [X]_{t}} denotes the quadratic variation of the process X . If Z t {\displaystyle Z_{t}} is a martingale then a probability measure Q can be defined on { Ω , F } {\displaystyle \{\Omega ,{\mathcal {F}}\}} such that Radon–Nikodym derivative Then for each t

165-580: The above observation, to the martingale process Y t = ∫ 0 t μ ( s , W s ) d W s . {\displaystyle Y_{t}=\int _{0}^{t}\mu (s,W_{s})dW_{s}.} In particular, with the notation above, the process W ~ t = W t − ∫ 0 t μ ( s , W s ) d s {\displaystyle {\tilde {W}}_{t}=W_{t}-\int _{0}^{t}\mu (s,W_{s})ds}

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180-729: The above theorem. This theorem can be used to show in the Black–Scholes model the unique risk-neutral measure, i.e. the measure in which the fair value of a derivative is the discounted expected value, Q, is specified by Another application of this theorem, also given in the original paper of Igor Girsanov, is for stochastic differential equations . Specifically, let us consider the equation d X t = μ ( t , X t ) d t + d W t , {\displaystyle dX_{t}=\mu (t,X_{t})dt+dW_{t},} where W t {\displaystyle W_{t}} denotes

195-566: The measure Q restricted to the unaugmented sigma fields F t o {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}_{t}^{o}} is equivalent to P restricted to Furthermore, if Y t {\displaystyle Y_{t}} is a local martingale under P then the process is a Q local martingale on the filtered probability space { Ω , F , Q , { F t W } } {\displaystyle \{\Omega ,F,Q,\{{\mathcal {F}}_{t}^{W}\}\}} . If X

210-410: The process W ~ t = W t − ∫ 0 t Y s d s {\displaystyle {\tilde {W}}_{t}=W_{t}-\int _{0}^{t}Y_{s}ds} for t ∈ [ 0 , T ] {\displaystyle t\in [0,T]} is a Q Brownian motion. This was Igor Girsanov's original formulation of

225-466: The process X is defined by For X of this form then a necessary and sufficient condition for E ( X ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}(X)} to be a martingale is Novikov's condition which requires that The stochastic exponential E ( X ) {\displaystyle {\mathcal {E}}(X)} is the process Z which solves the stochastic differential equation The measure Q constructed above

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