The change-of-measure machinery developed in this topic has three recurring applications in quantitative finance: bond pricing under short-rate models, equity derivatives under GBM, and currency (quanto) derivatives where one currency's drift is adjusted for correlation. This capstone consolidates the pipeline — Girsanov + risk-neutral pricing + martingale representation — on concrete instruments:
- Vasicek zero-coupon bond — bond price as a -conditional expectation, affine form recovered from the Feynman-Kac connection.
- European call under GBM — the full chain from drift removal to /, with the BS PDE recovered as a byproduct.
- Quanto forward — correlation adjustment from FX measure change; convexity correction for pricing in the wrong currency.
Each example ends with a key pitfall — the most common error at each step.
In this lesson
- Example 1: Vasicek Zero-Coupon Bond
- Example 2: European Call Under GBM (The Full Chain)
- Example 3: Quanto Forward — Currency Adjustment
Before you start
- The Black-Scholes Formula Derived via Change of Measure
- The Martingale Representation Theorem and Market Completeness
- Mean-Reverting Diffusions: OU, Vasicek, CIR, and the Feller Condition
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