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rleeuk
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brownian bridge

April 19th, 2007, 12:14 pm

W_t is a brownian motion with drift m and vol s, what is the process W_t | W_T for t <T?
 
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Vassili
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brownian bridge

April 22nd, 2007, 1:11 pm

W_t is a geometric, or an arithmetic b.m.? - the question seems to imply that it is geometric.As it is, I cannot understand the question very well. I know that the process z_t=W_t / W_T is used to simulate a brownian bridge. But z_t is not measurable with respect to the natural filtration F_t of W_t, it's only measurable w.r.t. F_T. Are you asking for its law of motion? Btw, the definition of brownian bridge that I know is:It's easy to derive its law of motion. It's more interesting to show that the Novikov condition is violated, so it may not be possible to apply Girsanov's Theorem.
 
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brownian bridge

April 23rd, 2007, 12:27 am

Thanks for the input Vassili.The question is actually what's the process W_t conditional on W_T, W_t being an arithmetic bm. The conditional distribution at any fixed t is pretty easy to work out, the conditional process can be written as (t / T) W_T + z_t, where z_t is defined above, does anyone know how to show this?
 
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brownian bridge

May 9th, 2007, 7:16 pm

What about the conditional distribution in case W_t is a mean reverting process? or a geometric brownian motion?can that be derived?
 
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May 10th, 2007, 7:32 am

take a look atLyons, T. J., Zheng, W., A. On conditional diffusion processes. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 115 (1990), no. 3-4, 243-255what you need is also summarized inQian_Zheng
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May 10th, 2007, 8:12 am

i cant find the first article , can someone help me?what i want to do ultimately is to perform a stochastic interpolation from semi-annual data to monthly data, for which the semi-annual model is e.g. a simple mean reverting model, or a log mean reverting model.