
8.4 Stochastic Intensity Processes 479
Comment 8.4.5.2 We have seen that a Poisson process with stochastic
intensity can be viewed as a time-changed of a standard Poisson process. Here,
we interpret a Poisson process with stochastic intensity as a Poisson process
with constant intensity under a change of probability. Indeed, a Poisson
process with intensity 1 under P is a Poisson process with stochastic intensity
(λ
t
,t≥ 0) under Q
λ
,whereQ
λ
|
F
t
= L
λ
t
P|
F
t
and where dL
λ
t
= L
λ
t
−
(λ
t
−1)dM
t
.
8.4.6 An Elementary Model of Prices Involving Jumps
Suppose that S is a stochastic process with dynamics given by
dS
t
= S
t
−
(b(t)dt + φ(t)dM
t
), (8.4.4)
where M is the compensated martingale associated with an inhomogeneous
Poisson process N with strictly positive deterministic intensity λ and where
b, φ are deterministic continuous functions. We assume that φ>−1sothat
the process S remains strictly positive. The solution of (8.4.4)is
S
t
= S
0
exp
−
t
0
φ(s)λ(s)ds +
t
0
b(s)ds
s≤t
(1 + φ(s)ΔN
s
)
= S
0
exp
t
0
b(s)ds
exp
t
0
ln(1 + φ(s))dN
s
−
t
0
φ(s)λ(s)ds
.
Hence S
t
exp
−
t
0
b(s)ds
is a strictly positive local martingale.
We assume now that S is the dynamics of the price of a financial asset
under the historical probability measure. We denote by r the deterministic
interest rate and by R
t
=exp(−
t
0
r(s)ds) the discount factor. It is important
to give a necessary and sufficient condition under which the financial market
with the asset S and the riskless asset is complete and arbitrage free when
φ does not vanish. Therefore, our aim is to give conditions such that there
exists a probability measure Q, equivalent to P, under which the discounted
process SR is a local martingale.
Any F
M
-martingale admits a representation as a stochastic integral with
respect to M . Hence, any strictly positive F
M
-martingale L canbewrittenas
dL
t
= L
t
−
μ
t
dM
t
where μ is an F
M
-predictable process such that μ>−1 and,
if L
0
= 1, the martingale L can be used as a Radon-Nikod´ym density. We are
looking for conditions on μ such that the process RS is a Q-local martingale
where dQ|
F
t
= L
t
dP|
F
t
; or equivalently, the process (Y
t
= R
t
S
t
L
t
,t≥ 0) is a
P-local martingale. Integration by parts yields
dY
t
mart
= Y
t
−
((b(t) − r(t))dt + φ(t)μ
t
d[M]
t
)
mart
= Y
t
−
(b(t) − r(t)+φ(t)μ
t
λ(t)) dt .
Hence, Y is a P-local martingale if and only if μ
t
= −
b(t) − r(t)
φ(t)λ(t)
.