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Stochastic Calculus / Change of Measure, Girsanov, and Risk-Neutral Pricing

Worked Examples — Change of Measure in Derivatives Pricing

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:

  1. Vasicek zero-coupon bond — bond price as a Q\mathbb{Q}-conditional expectation, affine form recovered from the Feynman-Kac connection.
  2. European call under GBM — the full chain from drift removal to d1d_1/d2d_2, with the BS PDE recovered as a byproduct.
  3. 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

  1. Example 1: Vasicek Zero-Coupon Bond
  2. Example 2: European Call Under GBM (The Full Chain)
  3. Example 3: Quanto Forward — Currency Adjustment

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