The paper introduces an approach for the derivation of discrete time approximations for solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with time delay. The suggested approximations converge in a strong sense. Furthermore, explicit solutions for linear stochastic delay equations are given.

This paper considers the derivation of weak discrete time approximations for solutions of stochastic differential equations with time delay. These are suitable for Monte Carlo simulation and allow the computation of expectations for functionals of stochastic delay equations. The suggested...

We investigate exponential stock models driven by tempered stable processes, which constitute a rich family of purely discontinuous Lévy processes. With a view of option pricing, we provide a systematic analysis of the existence of equivalent martingale measures, under which the model remains...

We investigate the class of tempered stable distributions and their associated processes. Our analysis of tempered stable distributions includes limit distributions, parameter estimation and the study of their densities. Regarding tempered stable processes, we deal with density transformations...

The stochastic delay differential equationis considered, where Z(t) is a process with independent stationary increments and a is a finite signed measure. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a stationary solution to this equation in terms of a and the Lévy measure...

We present a class of Lévy processes for modelling financial market fluctuations: bilateral Gamma processes. Our starting point is to explore the properties of bilateral Gamma distributions, and then we turn to their associated Lévy processes. We treat exponential Lévy stock models with an...

The geometric Brownian motion is the solution of a linear stochastic differential equation in the Itô sense. If one adds to the drift term a possible nonlinear time-delayed term and starts with a non-negative initial process then the process generated in this way, may hit zero and may oscillate...

We investigate the four parameter family of bilateral Gamma distributions. The goal of this paper is to provide a thorough treatment of the shapes of their densities, which is of importance for assessing their fitting properties to sets of real data. This includes appropriate representations of...