June 25th, 2008, 4:06 pm
Sure -- just don't call them GBM. Here are two approaches.I. dW draws are independent and identically distributed (iid), right? A general class of iid processes (in continuous time) are called Levy processes, written say L(t). So, roughly dW -> dL is what you want.Google "exponential Levy models"; there is also a Levy Process thread in the FAQ forum.Simulating them is discussed in Schouten's 'Levy Processes in Finance' and Cont/Tankov's 'Financial Modelling with Jump Processes'II.Alternatively, suppose you don't require a continuous-time limit, but have a fixed time step Dt .Then, you can draw from whatever (zero-mean) distribution you want, written say F(x) for the distribution of X = log S(t)/S(t-Dt).For example, maybe you will parameterize and risk-adjust the historical distribution for time step Dt.This is just an iid random walk model.So, now dW -> dF is what you want. Simulation can be done by the Inverse methodregards,
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Alan on June 24th, 2008, 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.