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monte carlo method in finance

whats is monte carlo method in finance? its a numerical method for calculating option’s price. it consist in generating many possible scenarios and calculate average. example – call option suppose Black-Scholes (lognormal) dynamics for underlying stock S. suppose interest rate and

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ito lemma in finance

to derive equations for asset price evolution one uses Ito lemma: $$ d f(X_t,Y_t) = f_{x}(X)dX+f_{y}(Y)dY+f_{xy}dXdY + \frac{1}{2} f_{xx}(X) dXdX+ \frac{1}{2} f_{yy}(Y) dY dY $$ basically its the same as Taylor formula for 2 variables developed until 2nd order. when

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Girsanov theorem finance

to change the probability measure one uses Girsanov theorem (formula): $$ \frac{N_a(0)}{N_a(T)} d \mathbb{P}_a=\frac{N_b(0)}{N_b(T)} d \mathbb{P}_b$$ $$N_a$$ is numeraire (price of any non dividend paying asset, usually bond or bank account) and it’s correspoding probability measure is $$P_a$$ $$N_b$$ is

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