Friday, May 17, 2019

brownian motion - Partial derivative of an integral


Suppose I have a model for the short rate r as (W(t) is standard Brownian motion)


r(t)=c+t0σ(s)2(ts)ds+t0σ(s)dW(s)


I then want to find the dynamics of r, but how do I do that when the process itself contains integrals w.r.t Brownian motion? I get stuck when using Ito's formula and trying to calculate the integral tt0σ(s)dW(s)



Answer



Let Xt=t0σ(s)dWs

denote a stochastic integral in the Itô sense. In that case one can write rt=f(t,Xt) where f:(t,x)c+t0σ2(s)(ts)ds+x
and use Itô's lemma to compute the differential drt=tf(t,Xt)dt+xf(t,Xt)dXt+xxf(t,Xt)dXt
where from (1) tf(t,Xt)=tt0σ2(s)(ts)ds=t0σ2(s)ds+1(σ2(t)(tt))0(σ2(0)(0s))=t0σ2(s)ds
from Leibniz integral rule and xf(t,Xt)=1,xxf(t,Xt)=0
along with, by definition of the Itô integral: dXt=σ(t)dWt,dXt=σ2(t)dt
such that finally: drt=(t0σ2(s)ds)dt+σ(t)dWt





And indeed by integrating this last equation from 0 to t one gets: rtr0=t0(u0σ2(s)ds)du+t0σ(u)dWu

and noting that t0u0σ2(s)dsdu=t0tsσ2(s)duds=t0σ2(s)(ts)ds
by Fubini theorem, one gets rt=r0+t0σ2(s)(ts)ds+t0σ(s)dWs


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