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Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics



Parisian times for linear diffusions

Christophe Profeta

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Abstract: We compute the joint distribution of the first times a linear diffusion makes an excursion longer than some given duration above (resp. below) some fixed level. In the literature, such stopping times have been introduced and studied in the framework of Parisian barrier options, mainly in the case of Brownian motion with drift. We also exhibit several independence properties, and provide some formulae for the associated ruin probabilities.

Keywords: Diffusion theory, excursion theory

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