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but they are driven by a same randomness. As a result, conditional on a jump event
occurring, either a positive or a negative surprise can happen in the Kou model.
Summing up, by setting
μ
1
=
1
η
1
,
μ
∗
2
= −
1
η
2
,
λ
1
= p
λ
,
λ
2
= q
λ
, (7.43)
we have established an equivalence between the Pareto jump model and Kou’s
model. Kou’s original option pricing formula is rather complicated and is expressed
in terms of a sum of Hh functions, a special function of mathematical physics.
The numerical computation of European-style option prices is then very extensive.
In contrast, as an equivalence of Kou’s model to the Pareto jumps is established,
a pricing formula for Kou’s model similar to (7.33) and (7.35) is available, and
shares the same computation method as other jump models. The application of the
Fourier transform in Kou’s model then gains many advantages in terms of efficiency,
tractability and simplicity.
7.6 Affine Jump-Diffusions
In this chapter, we have actually discussed jumps in a jump-diffusion model where
the underlying stock prices S(t) are driven jointly by a diffusion, i.e., a Brown-
ian motion W(t), and a jump component JdY(t). In fact, the jump-diffusion as an
enhanced setting may be applied to model any financial quantity. Duffie, Pan and
Singleton (DPS, 2000) used affine structures of a multi-dimensional jump-diffusion
X(t) as background-driving factors to model the dynamics of all pricing-relevant
rates, such as stock returns, interest rates, volatilities, and foreign exchanges. As in
Bakshi and Madan (1999), Duffie, Pan and Singleton considered a discounted CF
(see Section 2.2.2) as follows
f
∗
(
φ
,T −t)=E
exp
−
T
t
r(X(s),s)ds
e
i
φ
X(T )
|F
t
, (7.44)
where interest rate r(X(t),t) is affine in X(t). By setting
φ
= 0, we obtain the expres-
sion for zero-coupon bond. An important insight of DPS for affine jump-diffusion
is that the discounted CF f
∗
(
φ
) under some technical regularity conditions admits a
solution of exponential affine form,
f
∗
(
φ
,T −t)=e
α
(t)+
β
(t)X(t)
, (7.45)
where
α
(t) and
β
(t) are determined by two ODEs, and have the closed-form solu-
tions for many particular processes.
In the line of the jump-diffusion model discussed above, we propose that X(t) ∈
R
n
is governed by the following n-dimensional process under the risk-neutral mea-
sure,