A note on first-passage times of continuously time-changed Brownian motion

The probability of a Brownian motion with drift to remain between two constant barriers (for some period of time) is known explicitly. In mathematical finance, this and related results are required, e.g., for the pricing of single- and double-barrier options in a Black-Scholes framework. One popular possibility to generalize the Black-Scholes model is to introduce a stochastic time-scale. This equips the modelled returns with desirable stylized facts such as volatility clusters and jumps. For continuous time transformations, we show that analytical results for the double-barrier problem can be obtained via the Laplace transform of the time-change. The result is a very efficient power series representation for the resulting exit probabilities. We discuss possible specifications of the time change based on integrated intensities of shot-noise type and of basic-affine process type.     «

The probability of a Brownian motion with drift to remain between two constant barriers (for some period of time) is known explicitly. In mathematical finance, this and related results are required, e.g., for the pricing of single- and double-barrier options in a Black-Scholes framework. One popular possibility to generalize the Black-Scholes model is to introduce a stochastic time-scale. This equips the modelled returns with desirable stylized facts such as volatility clusters and jumps. For co...     »