In finance, various stochastic models have been used to describe the price movements of financial instruments. After Merton's [38] seminal work, several jump diffusion models for option pricing and risk management have been proposed. In this dissertation, we add alpha-stable Levy motion to the process related to dynamics of log-returns in the Black-Scholes model where the volatility is assumed to be constant. We use the sample characteristic function approach in order to study parameter estimation for discretely observed stochastic differential equations driven by Levy noises. We also discuss the consistency and asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators. Simulation results of the model are also presented to show the validity of the estimators. We then propose a new model where the volatility is not a constant. We consider generalized alpha-stable geometric Levy processes where the stochastic volatility follows the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) model in Cox et al. [9]. A number of methods have been proposed for estimating parameters for stable laws. However, a complication arises in estimation of the parameters in our model because of the presence of the unobservable stochastic volatility. To combat this complication we use the sample characteristic function method proposed by Press [48] and the conditional least squares method as mentioned in Overbeck and Ryden [47] to estimate all the parameters. We then discuss the consistency and asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators and establish a Central Limit Theorem. We perform simulations to assess the validity of the estimators. We also present several tables to show the comparison of estimators using different choices of arguments ui's. We conclude that all the estimators converge as expected regardless of the choice of ui's. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_41913 |
| Contributors | Chhetri, Sher B. (author), Long, Hongwei (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences |
| Publisher | Florida Atlantic University |
| Source Sets | Florida Atlantic University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 95 p., application/pdf |
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