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Pls help with some derivation in "Funding Beyond Discounting .." from V. Piterbarg

November 14th, 2012, 1:44 pm

hi,I have some trivial question about Piterbarg seminal paper on how funding and collateralisation impacts Black and Scholes PDE.The paper can be found here :paperalso, just below equation (4) he states the following :"Note that if our probability space is rich enough, we can take it tobe the same risk-neutral measure P as used in (1)."What does it mean exactly ? What are the technical assumptions behing the "rich enough" comment ?Many thanksApprentice
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Pls help with some derivation in "Funding Beyond Discounting .." from V. Piterbarg

November 16th, 2012, 4:31 pm

so we have the PDE just above (3). We know by Feyman Kac that the solution can be represented by (3), (4) for some Brownian motion W_S. But this Brownian motion needs to "live" in some probability space. It is convenient to have this BM on the same probability space as W_C from (1). There isn't really any theoretical asumptions here as we can clearly find a probability space that can host both W_S and W_C. the sentence should be understood as "when we mentioned the probability space for W_C we implicitly assumed that there is room there for one more Brownian motion"hope this clarifies matters.. if it does not, I suggest thta you not worry about it. It is really a pretty obscure point that betrays my upbringings in the rigorous world of pure math and that I could not resist throwing into an applied finance paper! sorry about itVladimir
 
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Pls help with some derivation in "Funding Beyond Discounting .." from V. Piterbarg

November 17th, 2012, 7:32 am

hi Vladimir.thank you very much for the explanation.I got it now.I agree that it does not hinder in any way the understanding of your article, I was just curious about why it was mentionned when most papers do not mention these technical details. I thought I was maybe missing some specific subtle point.