Consider two assets whose prices (S_{t}^{(1)}, S_{t}^{(2)}) at time (t in[0, T]) follow the geometric Brownian dynamics
Question:
Consider two assets whose prices \(S_{t}^{(1)}, S_{t}^{(2)}\) at time \(t \in[0, T]\) follow the geometric Brownian dynamics
\[
d S_{t}^{(1)}=\mu S_{t}^{(1)} d t+\sigma_{1} S_{t}^{(1)} d W_{t}^{(1)} \text { and } d S_{t}^{(2)}=\mu S_{t}^{(2)} d t+\sigma_{2} S_{t}^{(2)} d W_{t}^{(2)}
\]
\(t \in[0, T]\), where \(\left(W_{t}^{(1)}ight)_{t \in[0, T]},\left(W_{t}^{(2)}ight)_{t \in[0, T]}\) are two Brownian motions with correlation \(ho \in[-1,1]\), i.e. we have \(\mathbb{E}\left[W_{t}^{(1)} W_{t}^{(2)}ight]=ho t\).
a) Compute \(\mathbb{E}\left[S_{t}^{(i)}ight], t \in[0, T], i=1,2\).
b) Compute \(\operatorname{Var}\left[S_{t}^{(i)}ight], t \in[0, T], i=1,2\).
c) Compute \(\operatorname{Var}\left[S_{t}^{(2)}-S_{t}^{(1)}ight], t \in[0, T]\).
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Introduction To Stochastic Finance With Market Examples
ISBN: 9781032288277
2nd Edition
Authors: Nicolas Privault