August 26th, 2008, 10:07 pm
"Different" BMs doesn't mean anything if you don't specify the joint distribution. On the other hand, using only one BM for the two SDEs would mean that there is a single risk factor in the market, which is too simplistic, so multiple BMs is a better idea.In fact you could either :- write two SDES with two BMs W^1_t and W^2_t that are correlated : E(dW^1 dW^2) = rho dt ;- or have a standard 2-dimensional BM : (B^1_t,B^2_t), that is with independent components, and write two SDEs for S_t and X_t, each of them containing terms in both B^1 and B^2.In fact both situations are essentially equivalent ; I'd choose the second one because I think standard BMs are easier to handle, e.g. w.r.t. Ito's formula, but this only my humble opinion.