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Conditional Expectation for a GBM with a Constant Drift Term

Article Quant Q&A · Author: ʎpoqou

Summary

The document asks how to find the risk-neutral conditional expectation of a process built from geometric Brownian motion and an accumulated constant term. The process is expressed as a GBM multiplied by an integral involving its reciprocal, and it also satisfies a stochastic differential equation with constant additive drift. The response defines the integral component as a separate process and applies the product rule to derive its dynamics.

Discounting that process removes the proportional drift, leaving a stochastic integral and a deterministic accumulated contribution. The response then uses the martingale property of the stochastic integral to express the future conditional expectation using information available at the conditioning time. This is a useful transformation for stochastic-calculus exercises, but the displayed derivation appears to contain sign or algebra inconsistencies in its final deterministic term and should be checked before relying on the formula. The result also presumes the relevant integrability conditions.

Key ideas

  • Isolate the product of the GBM and its accumulated reciprocal integral as a new process.
  • Apply the stochastic product rule to derive its differential equation.
  • Discounting removes the proportional drift and exposes the deterministic contribution.
  • A stochastic integral with suitable integrability has zero conditional expected future increment.
  • Check the response's final deterministic term, which appears inconsistent with the preceding integration.

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(I asked this question on MSE but I think it might have more success here)

Good day,

> I was going over some exercises and I stumbled upon a question that, for its solution, requires me to find/simplify $$ \tilde{\Bbb{E}}[S_T|\mathcal{F}_t] $$ in terms of $S_t$ where $$ S_t=S_0Y_t+Y_t\int^t_0\frac{a}{Y_s}ds $$ $$ dY_t=rY_tdt+\sigma Y_td\tilde{W}_t$$ $$ \ Y_t=exp \left( \sigma\tilde{W}_t+(r-0.5\sigma^2)t \right) $$ $$ dS_t=rS_tdt+\sigma S_t d\tilde{W}_t +adt$$

$\tilde{\Bbb{P}}$ is the risk neutral measure.

$Y_t$ is a GBM and thus I think the first term is easy to deal with, but the 2nd one with the integral is a bit of a mystery to me. Do I have to take the $Y_T$ inside the integral and play with the exponential form of the GBM? Any help would be appreciated.

In essence, how do I find the following? $$ \tilde{\Bbb{E}}[Y_T\int^T_0\frac{a}{Y_s}ds|\mathcal{F}_t] $$

## Answer by Xiaohuolong (score 2)

https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/53976

Let $$Z_t=Y_t\int_0^t\frac{a}{Y_s}ds$$ Then $Z_0=0$. We differentiate $Z_t$ and obtain $$dZ_t=\int_0^t\frac{a}{Y_s}dsdY_t+Y_t\frac{a}{Y_t}dt=\int_0^t\frac{a}{Y_s}ds(rY_tdt+\sigma Y_td\tilde{W_t})+adt$$ $$=rY_t\int_0^t\frac{a}{Y_s}dsdt+\sigma Y_t\int_0^t\frac{a}{Y_s}dsd\tilde{W_t}+adt$$ Then $$dZ_t=rZ_tdt+\sigma Z_td\tilde{W_t}+adt$$ We have $$d(e^{-rt}Z_t)=e^{-rt}(\sigma Z_td\tilde{W_t}+adt)$$ Thus, $$e^{-rt}Z_t=\int_0^te^{-rs}\sigma Z_sd\tilde{W_s}+a\int_0^te^{-rs}ds$$ $$=\int_0^te^{-rs}\sigma Z_sd\tilde{W_t}-\frac{a}{r}(e^{-rt}-1)$$ So $$Z_T=e^{rT}\int_0^Te^{-rs}\sigma Z_sd\tilde{W_s}-\frac{a}{r}(1-e^{rT})$$ and we can express the desired expectation with quantities known at time $t$ $$\mathbb{E}_t[Z_T]=e^{rT}\int_0^te^{-rs}\sigma Z_sd\tilde{W_s}-\frac{a}{r}(1-e^{rT})$$

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