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Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aarhus

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December 2000




Feller Processes of Normal Inverse Gaussian Type

by:

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen

S.Z. Levendorskii

Abstract

We consider construction of Normal Inverse Gaussian (NIG) (and some related) Lévy processes from the probabilistic viewpoint and from the one of the theory of pseudo-differential operators, and then we introduce and analyse natural generalisations of these constructions. The resulting Feller processes are somewhat similar to the NIG Lévy process but may, for instance, possess mean-reverting features. Possible applications to Financial Mathematics are discussed, and approximations to solutions of corresponding generalisations of Black-Scholes equation are derived.

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This paper has now been published in Quantitative Finance 1 (2001), 318-331.