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Applying Itô’s Lemma to Bond, FX, and Risk-Neutral Derivative Models

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Summary

The document presents stochastic-calculus exercises involving a Hull–White short-rate process, a default-free zero-coupon bond, and a dollar–yen exchange rate. One task asks for the dynamics of a Japanese investor’s bond value after converting it into yen, requiring Itô’s lemma and accounting for the shared Brownian shock between the bond and FX rate. A second exercise prices derivatives under a bank-account numeraire and an equivalent martingale measure.

The derivative payoffs are the square root of one stock price and the product of two stock prices driven by separate Brownian motions. The requested outputs are price-to-underlying ratios, with a warning that these ratios generally are not one. The document supplies the model assumptions and questions but no worked solutions or numerical evidence. It is therefore useful as an exercise prompt for applying Itô calculus, measure changes, and conditional expectations, while readers must derive the results themselves.

Key ideas

  • The yen value of a dollar bond combines bond and exchange-rate dynamics through Itô’s lemma.
  • Correlated exposure to a shared Brownian motion contributes a cross-variation term.
  • Risk-neutral pricing discounts conditional expected payoffs using the chosen numeraire.
  • Nonlinear and multi-asset payoffs can produce price-to-underlying ratios different from one.

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Quuestion1.

I make a solution $r(t)$ used by Ito's lemma

$r(t)=e^{-a t}r(0)+\int _{0}^{t}e^{a (s-t)}\theta (s)ds+\sigma e^{-a t}\int _{0}^{t}e^{a u}\,dB^{1}(u)$

Is this right?

and I try to make solution of $P(t)$ and $X(t)$.But because of my lack of understand, I couldn't solve that.

Question2.

I cannot understand problem not at all. what is mean of $\frac{Z_T}{\beta(T)}|F_t$ and $\frac{W_T}{\beta(T)} | F_t$

> Question 1.

Let $(Ω, F, P)$ be a complete probability space, and let $B (t) = (B^1 (t), B^2 (t))$, $t \in [0, T]$ be a two-dimensional standard Brownian motion. Let $(F_t)_{ t \in [0, T]}$ be a fit that satisfies the standard condition that $B (t)$ generates. A US dollar-denominated, default-free zero-coupon bond that pays a repayment of US \$ 1 at maturity $T$, but gives the price $P (t)$ at time $t \in [0, T]$ as the solution to the next stochastic differential equation It is assumed that

$dP(t)=(r(t)+\lambda b(t))P(t)dt - b(t)P(t)dB^1(t), $

$P(T)=1$

Where $b (t)$ is a deterministic positive value function of time $t, r (t)$ is a short rate of US dollars, and the following Hull-White model is used.

$dr(t)= (\theta(t)-a\cdot r(t))dt +\sigma \cdot dB^1(t),$

$ r(0)>0$,Constant

$\theta (t)$ is a deterministic function of time$ t$, and $a, \sigma$ are positive value constants. The spot exchange rate $X (t)$ for the US $ -Yen is assumed to be the solution of the following stochastic differential equation.

$dX (t)= \mu Χ(t)dt + \sigma_1 X(t)dB^1(t) + \sigma_2 Χ(t)dB^2(t),$

$ X (0 ) =Χ_0 > 0.$

Here, $\mu$, $\sigma_1$, and $\sigma_2$ are positive constants. Use the Ito formula and answer the following. Please also explain the calculation process.

(1) Suppose that a Japanese investor has invested in the top zero coupon bond. This investor recognizes the market value on a yen basis. Calculate $dS (t)$ for the value $S (t) = X (t) P (t)$ for this investor. (Please express the last equation by $dt, dB^1 (t), dB^2 (t)$.)

> Question 2.

Let $(Ω, F, P)$ be a complete probability space, and let $B (t) = (B^1 (t), B^2 (t))$,$ t ∈ [0, T] $be a two-dimensional standard Brownian motion. The filtration generated by this Brownian motion and satisfying the standard condition is $(F_t)_{ t \in [0, T]}$. Suppose$ F = F_T$. Suppose that the prices $\beta(t), X (t) $ and $ Y (t)$ of each of the deposit, stock $X$ and stock $Y$ are given by the solution of the following stochastic differential equation.

$d\beta(t) =r \beta(t)dt,\beta(0)=1.$

$dX(t)=\mu_x X(t)dt+\sigma_x X(t)dB^1(t),X(0)=x>0.$

$dY(t)=\mu_y Y(t)dt+\sigma_y Y(t)dB^2(t),X(0)=y>0.$

The parameters are $r, x, \mu_X, \sigma_X, y, \mu_Y, \sigma_Y> 0$. Let $Q$ be the equivalent Martingale measure with $\beta (t)$ as the numeraire. Let $Q-(F_t)-$standard Brown's motion be $\hat{B} (t) = (\hat{B}^1 (t), \hat{B}^2 (t))$.

Answer the following questions. Please explain the calculation process.

(1)Payoff at time $T$

$W_T:=\sqrt{X(T)}$

The price at time t of the derivative that gives

$\Pi (t)=\beta (t) E^Q [\frac{W_T}{\beta(T)} | F_t]$

Find the ratio of $\sqrt{X(t)}$,$\Pi(t)/\sqrt{X(t)}$.

(2)Payoff at time $T$

$Z_T := X(T) \cdot Y(T)$

The price at time $t$ of the derivative that gives

$\Phi (t) =\beta(t)E^Q[\frac{Z_T}{\beta(T)}|F_t]$

Find the ratio of $Z(t)= X (t) \cdot Y(t)$ , $\Phi(t)/Z(t)$ .

> Cautions 1. The settings for this problem generally do not have a ratio of 1.

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