Comparison of semimartingales and Levy processes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bergenthum, Jan; Ruedschendorf, Ludger
• 署名单位: University of Freiburg
• 刊物名称: ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0091-1798
• DOI: 10.1214/009117906000000386
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 228-254
• 关键词: STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL-EQUATIONS

摘要

In this paper, we derive comparison results for terminal values of d-dimensional special semimartingales and also for finite-dimensional distributions of multivariate Levy processes. The comparison is with respect to nondecreasing, (increasing) convex, (increasing) directionally convex and (increasing) supermodular functions. We use three different approaches. In the first approach, we give sufficient conditions on the local predictable characteristics that imply ordering of terminal values of semimartingales. This generalizes some recent convex comparison results of exponential models in [Math. Finance 8 (1998) 93-126, Finance Stoch. 4 (2000) 209-222, Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 237 (2002) 73-113, Finance Stoch. 10 (2006) 222-249]. In the second part, we give comparison results for finite-dimensional distributions of Levy processes with infinite Levy measure. In the first step, we derive a comparison result for Markov processes based on a monotone separating transition kernel. By a coupling argument, we get an application to the comparison of compound Poisson processes. These comparisons are then extended by an approximation argument to the ordering of Levy processes with infinite Levy measure. The third approach is based on mixing representations which are known for several relevant distribution classes. We discuss this approach in detail for the comparison of generalized hyperbolic distributions and for normal inverse Gaussian processes.