Issue |
ESAIM: PS
Volume 18, 2014
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Page(s) | 829 - 853 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/ps/2014003 | |
Published online | 29 October 2014 |
Optional splitting formula in a progressively enlarged filtration
Laboratoire Analyse et Probabilités,
Université d’Evry Val D’Essonne, 23
Bd de France, 91037
Evry cedex,
France
shiqi.song@univ-evry.fr
Received:
10
September
2012
Revised:
7
December
2013
Let be a filtration and τ be a random time. Let
be the progressive enlargement of
with τ. We study the following formula, called the optional splitting formula: For any
-optional process Y, there exists an
-optional process Y′ and a function Y′′ defined on [0,∞] × (ℝ+ × Ω) being
measurable, such that
(This formula can also be formulated for multiple random times τ1,...,τk). We are interested in this formula because of its fundamental role in many recent papers on credit risk modeling, and also because of the fact that its validity is limited in scope and this limitation is not sufficiently underlined. In this paper we will determine the circumstances in which the optional splitting formula is valid. We will then develop practical sufficient conditions for that validity. Incidentally, our results reveal a close relationship between the optional splitting formula and several measurability questions encountered in credit risk modeling. That relationship allows us to provide simple answers to these questions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 60G07 / 60G44 / 91G40 / 97M30
Key words: Optional process / progressive enlargement of filtration / credit risk modeling / conditional density hypothesis
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