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Transition Probability of Brownian Motion in the Octant and its Application to Default Modelling |
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| Authors: | Vadim Kaushansky Alexander Lipton Christoph Reisinger |
| Affiliation: | 1. Mathematical Institute &2. Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford, UKVadim.Kaushansky@maths.ox.ac.uk;4. Connection Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA;5. Financial Engineering, école Polytechnique F′ed′erale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;6. Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| Abstract: | ABSTRACTWe derive a semi-analytical formula for the transition probability of three-dimensional Brownian motion in the positive octant with absorption at the boundaries. Separation of variables in spherical coordinates leads to an eigenvalue problem for the resulting boundary value problem in the two angular components. The main theoretical result is a solution to the original problem expressed as an expansion into special functions and an eigenvalue which has to be chosen to allow a matching of the boundary condition. We discuss and test several computational methods to solve a finite-dimensional approximation to this nonlinear eigenvalue problem. Finally, we apply our results to the computation of default probabilities and credit valuation adjustments in a structural credit model with mutual liabilities. |
| Keywords: | Three-dimensional Brownian motion transition probability nonlinear eigenvalue problem structural default modelmutual liabilities |