Exponential functionals of Lévy processes and variable annuity guaranteed benefits

Runhuan Feng, Alexey Kuznetsov and Fenghao Yang

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2019, vol. 129, issue 2, 604-625

Abstract: Exponential functionals of Brownian motion have been extensively studied in financial and insurance mathematics due to their broad applications, for example, in the pricing of Asian options. The Black–Scholes model is appealing because of mathematical tractability, yet empirical evidence shows that geometric Brownian motion does not adequately capture features of market equity returns. One popular alternative for modeling equity returns consists in replacing the geometric Brownian motion by an exponential of a Lévy process. In this paper we use this latter model to study variable annuity guaranteed benefits and to compute explicitly the distribution of certain exponential functionals.

Keywords: Exponential functionals; Lévy processes; Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process; Mellin transform; Meijer G-function; Variable annuity guaranteed benefits (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2018.03.011

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