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Risk, Return, and Ross Recovery

Peter Carr and Jiming Yu

Morgan Stanley

October 9, 2012

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Disclaimer

The views represented herein are the author’s own views and do not necessarilyrepresent the views of Morgan Stanley or its affiliates and are not a product ofMorgan Stanley Research.

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Reminding Your P’s & Q’s: FTAP#1

Depending on the context, the “First Fundamental Theorem of AssetPricing” is either a proven mathematical theorem or a folk theorem thatrelates two probability measures usually denoted P and Q.

Here we regard P as indicating not only which states or paths can occur, butalso indicating the frequency with which the market believes they occur. Weassume that this frequency is reflected in market prices, which also reflectattitudes towards risk.

FTAP#1 takes P as given along with an arbitrage-free market containing amoney market account S0t > 0, t ≥ 0. These assumptions imply theexistence of a probability measure Q equivalent to P such that for eachasset’s spot price Sit ∈ R, i = 0, 1 . . . , n, the ratio Sit

S0tis a Q martingale.

The probability measure Q is referred to as an “equivalent martingalemeasure” (EMM).

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Reminding Your P’s & Q’s: FTAP#2

Loosely, a financial market is said to be “complete” if the payoff of anycontingent claim in a specified set can be replicated by dynamic trading in aspecified subset of the “basis assets”.

FTAP#2 says that when FTAP#1 holds, a market is complete if and only ifthe EMM Q is unique.

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Overview of this Talk

There are four parts to this talk:

1 Ross Recovery Theorem for Finite State Markov Chains

2 Review of John Long’s Numeraire Portfolio

3 Ross Recovery for Bounded Diffusions

4 Ross Recovery for Unbounded Diffusions

The operating assumptions will be different in each section. Within asection, only one set of assumptions holds.

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Part I: P, Q, and Ross Recovery

Recall that the real-world probability measure P quantifies the market’sbelief about the frequencies of future states or paths. Suppose that P is exante unknown.

Assume that the market is complete and that in contrast to P, therisk-neutral probability measure Q is known ex ante.

In 2011, Steve Ross began circulating a working paper called “The RecoveryTheorem” whose first theorem gives sufficient conditions under whichknowing Q implies knowing P exactly.

We call his Theorem 1 the Ross Recovery Theorem.

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The Ross Recovery Theorem

Theorem 1 in Ross (2011) states that:

1 if markets are complete, and2 if the utility function of the representative investor is state-independent

and intertemporally additively separable with a constant rate of timepreference and:

3 if there is a single state variable X which under Q is a timehomogeneous Markov chain with a finite number of states,

then under P, X is also a finite state Markov chain and one can recover thereal-world transition probability matrix P of X from the assumed known andunique risk-neutral transition probability matrix Q.

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Vas Ist Das?

A couple of us at Morgan Stanley were intrigued by Ross’s conclusion that Pcan be obtained from Q, but we wondered whether it was necessary torestrict preferences. Is there a preference-free way to obtain P from Q?

We also wondered whether it was necessary that the state variable X be afinite state Markov chain. The industry practice is to use models with acontinuous state space. We wondered in particular if P can be obtained fromQ when X is a diffusion under Q.

By restricting the Q dynamics of something called the numeraire portfolio,we showed that there is a preference-free way to obtain P from Q when thestate variable X is a diffusion on a bounded domain.

We are presently working to extend the results to a diffusion on anunbounded domain, which is a much harder problem.

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Part 2: The Numeraire Portfolio

In 1990, John Long introduced a notion which he called the numeraireportfolio.

A numeraire is any self-financing portfolio whose price is alway positive.

Long showed that if any set of assets is arbitrage-free, then there alwaysexists a self-financing portfolio of them whose value is always positive.

Furthermore, if the price of each asset is expressed relative to the value ofthis numeraire portfolio, then the relative price is a P martingale.

Long’s discovery of the existence of the numeraire portfolio allows one to doarbitrage-free pricing of derivative securities without using the probabilitymeasure Q. Instead, one deflates every asset price by the value L of Long’snumeraire portfolio, and then uses the real-world probability measure P asthe martingale measure.

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Intuition on the Numeraire Portfolio

The important mathematical property of the Money Market Account(MMA) is that its price process has sample paths of bounded variation.

When the MMA is used to finance all purchases and denominate all gains,then the P expected return on each asset position is usually not zero and inequilibrium would usually be ascribed to risk premium.

The important mathematical property of the numeraire portfolio is that itsvalue process is allowed to have sample paths of unbounded variation.

One can use this extra flexibility to construct a portfolio whose positivevalue covaries with each asset price so that when gains are expressed in unitsof the numeraire portfolio, the mean gain under P on each asset is zero.

If a particular asset is thought to have a positive risk premium, then oneconstructs the numeraire portfolio to covary positively with this asset’s price.When gains on the asset are parked in the numeraire portfolio, this positivecovariation kills the risk premium.

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Intuition for Positive Continuous Spot Prices

Let S0t be the spot price of the MMA and suppose that we have n riskyassets with spot prices Si for i = 1, . . . , n.

Long’s results hold when these spot prices are arbitrary semi-martingales,but let’s try to gain intuition by restricting each security’s spot price Si to bepositive and continuous over time.

By definition, the value L of Long’s numeraire portfolio is also positive andin this case, its sample paths would also be continuous over time.

Applying Ito’s formula to the ratio Sit/Lt , we have:

d(Sit/Lt)

Sit/Lt=

dSitSit− dLt

Lt− dSit

Sit

dLtLt

+

(dLtLt

)2

, i = 1 . . . n,

where dSit

Sit

dLt

Lt≡ d〈Si ,L〉t

SitLtand ( dLt

Lt)2 ≡ d〈L〉t

L2t

.

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Intuition for Positive Continuous Spot Prices (Con’d)Recall that for i = 1, . . . , n, the ratio of each spot price Si to the value L ofLong’s numeraire portfolio has P dynamics:

d(Sit/Lt)

Sit/Lt=

dSitSit− dLt

Lt− dSit

Sit

dLtLt

+

(dLtLt

)2

.

Suppose that the P dynamics for each risky spot price Si are:

dSit/Sit = (rt + πit)dt + σitdBit , i = 1, . . . , n,

where πi is the i-th asset’s risk premium, σi is the i-th asset’s volatilityprocess, and Bi is a driving SBM.

Let πLt and σLt be the risk premium and volatility process for L:

dLt/Lt = (rt + πLt)dt + σLtdBLt .

Taking expectations of the top equation under P, we get:

EPt

d(Sit/Lt)

Sit/Lt= πit − πLt − σiL,t + σ2

Lt , i = 1 . . . n.

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Intuition for Positive Continuous Spot Prices (Con’d)

Recall that the mean relative return under P for each risky asset is given by:

EPt

d(Sit/Lt)

Sit/Lt= πit − πLt − σiL,t + σ2

Lt , i = 1 . . . n,

where the π’s denote risk premia, σiL,tdt ≡ dSit

Sit

dLt

Lt, while σ2

Ltdt ≡ (dLt/Lt)2.

Suppose we construct L so that σiL,t = πit for i = 1 . . . n.

Since L is just the value of a portfolio of these assets, we have thatσ2L,t = πLt and hence the mean relative return on each asset vanishes!

It follows that the real world expected return on each asset would be:

EPt

dSitSit

= rtdt +dSitSit

dLtLt

i = 1 . . . n.

If we can determine the covariation of S with L under Q, then thiscovariation is unchanged when we switch to P, and hence we can determinethe instantaneous risk premium πit ≡ EP

tdSit

Sit− rtdt on each asset.

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Risk and Return for the Numeraire Portfolio

Recall that the risk premium of the numeraire portfolio IS its instantaneousvariance rate.

EPt

dLtLt− rtdt =

(dLtLt

)2

= σ2Ltdt, t ≥ 0.

One could not imagine a simpler relation between risk premium and risk.

Since πLt = σ2Lt , the SDE for L under P is:

dLtLt

= (rt + σ2Lt)dt + σLtdBLt = rtdt + σLt(dBLt + σLtdt), t ≥ 0.

It follows that the market price of the Brownian risk dBLt is σLt .

Our goal is now to determine σL, which represents both risk and reward.

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Part 3: Ross Recovery for Bounded Diffusions

Using Long’s numeraire portfolio, we replace Ross’s restrictions on the formof preferences with our restrictions on how prices evolve under Q.

More precisely, we suppose that the prices of some given set of assets are alldriven by a univariate time-homogenous bounded diffusion process, X .

Letting L denote the value of the numeraire portfolio for these assets, wefurthermore assume that L is also driven by X and t and that (X , L) is abivariate time homogenous diffusion.

We show that these assumptions determine the real-world dynamics of allassets in the given set.

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Our Assumptions

We assume no arbitrage for some finite set of assets which includes a moneymarket account (MMA).

As a result, there exists a risk-neutral measure Q under which spot pricesdeflated by the MMA balance evolve as martingales.

We assume that under Q, the driver X is a time homogeneous boundeddiffusion process:

dXt = b(Xt)dt + a(Xt)dWt , t ∈ [0,T ],

where Xt ∈ (`, u), t ≥ 0, a(x) > 0, and where W is SBM under Q.

We also assume that under Q, the value L of the numeraire portfolio solves:

dLtLt

= r(Xt)dt + σL(Xt)dWt , t ∈ [0,T ].

We know the functions b(x), a(x), and r(x) but not σL(x). How to find it?

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Value Function of the Numeraire PortfolioRecalling that X is our driver, we assume:

Lt ≡ L(Xt , t), t ∈ [0,T ],

where L(x , t) is a positive function of x ∈ R and time t ∈ [0,T ].

Applying Ito’s formula, the volatility of L is:

σL(x) ≡ 1

L(x , t)

∂xL(x , t)a(x) = a(x)

∂xln L(x , t).

Dividing by a(x) > 0 and integrating w.r.t. x :

ln L(x , t) =

∫ x σL(y)

a(y)dy + f (t), where f (t) is the constant of integration.

Exponentiating implies that the value of the numeraire portfolio separatesmultiplicatively into a positive function π(·) of the driver X and a positivefunction p(·) of time t:

L(x , t) = π(x)p(t),

where: π(x) = e∫ x σL(y)

a(y) dy and p(t) = ef (t).

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Separation of Variables

The numeraire portfolio value function L(x , t) must solve the following linearparabolic PDE to be self-financing:

∂tL(x , t) +

a2(x)

2

∂2

∂x2L(x , t) + b(x)

∂xL(x , t) = r(x)L(x , t).

On the other hand, the last slide shows that this value separates as:

L(x , t) = π(x)p(t).

Using Bernoulli’s classical separation of variables argument, we know that:

p(t) = p(0)eλt ,

and that:

a2(x)

2π′′(x) + b(x)π′(x)− r(x)π(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ [`, u].

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Regular Sturm Liouville Problem

Recall the ODE on the last slide:

a2(x)

2π′′(x) + b(x)π′(x)− r(x)π(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ [`, u].

where π(x) and λ are unknown.

Whichever boundary conditions we are allowed to impose, they will beseparated. As a result, we have a regular Sturm Liouville problem.

From Sturm Liouville theory, we know that there exists an eigenvalue λ0,smaller than all of the other eigenvalues, and an associated positiveeigenfunction, π0(x), which is unique up to positive scaling.

All of the eigenfunctions associated to the other eigenvalues switch signs atleast once.

One can numerically solve for both the smallest eigenvalue λ0 and itsassociated positive eigenfunction, π0(x). The positive eigenfunction π0(x) isunique up to positive scaling.

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Value Function of the Numeraire Portfolio

Recall that λ0 is the known lowest eigenvalue and π0(x) is the associatedeigenfunction, positive and known up to a positive scale factor.

Knowing λ0 and knowing π0(x) up to a positive constant implies that wealso know the value function of the numeraire portfolio up to a positiveconstant, since:

L(x , t) = π0(x)eλ0t , x ∈ [`, u], t ∈ [0,T ].

As a result, the volatility of the numeraire portfolio is uniquely determined:

σL(x) = a(x)∂

∂xlnπ0(x), x ∈ [`, u].

Mission accomplished! Let’s see what the market believes.

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Real World Dynamics of the Numeraire Portfolio

Recall that in our diffusion setting, Long (1990) showed that the real worlddynamics of L are given by:

dLtLt

= [r(Xt) + σ2L(Xt)]dt + σL(Xt)dBt , t ≥ 0,

where B is a standard Brownian motion under the real-world probabilitymeasure P.

In equilibrium, the risk premium of the numeraire portfolio is simply σ2L(x).

Since we have determined σL(x) on the last slide, the risk premium of thenumeraire portfolio has also been uniquely determined.

The market price of Brownian risk is simply σL(Xt). The function σL(x) isnow known, but what about the dynamics of X?

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Real World Dynamics of the Driver

From Girsanov’s theorem, the dynamics of the driver X under the real-worldprobability measure P are:

dXt = [b(Xt) + σL(Xt)a(Xt)]dt + a(Xt)dBt , t ≥ 0,

where recall B is a standard Brownian motion under P.

Hence, we now know the real world dynamics of the driver X .

We still have to determine the real-world transition density of the driver X .

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Real World Transition PDF of the Driver

From the change of numeraire theorem, the Radon Nikodym derivative dPdQ is:

dPdQ

= e−∫ T0

r(Xt)dtL(XT ,T )

L(X0, 0)=π0(XT )

π0(X0)eλ0T e−

∫ T0

r(Xt)dt ,

since L(x , t) = π0(x)eλ0t .

Solving for the real-world PDF dP gives:

dP =π0(XT )

π0(X0)e−λ0T e−

∫ T0

r(Xt)dtdQ =π0(XT )

π0(X0)e−λ0TdA.

where dA ≡ e−∫ T0

r(Xt)dtdQ denotes the Arrow Debreu state pricing density.

Knowing dQ implies that we also know the Arrow Debreu state pricing

density dA, at least numerically. As we also know the positive function π0(y)π0(x)

and the positive function e−λT , we know dP, the real-world transition PDFof X .

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Real-World Dynamics of Spot Prices

Also from Girsanov’s theorem, the dynamics of the i−th spot price Sit underP are uniquely determined as:

dSit = [r(Xt)Si (Xt , t)+σL(Xt)∂

∂xSi (Xt , t)a2(Xt)]dt+

∂xSi (Xt , t)a(Xt)dBt , t ∈ [0,T ],

where for x ∈ (`, u), t ∈ [0,T ], Si (x , t) solves the following linear PDE:

∂tSi (x , t) +

a2(x)

2

∂2

∂x2Si (x , t) + b(x)

∂xSi (x , t) = r(x)Si (x , t),

subject to appropriate boundary and terminal conditions. If Sit > 0, then theSDE at the top can be expressed as:

dSitSit

= r(Xt)+σL(Xt)∂

∂xlnSi (Xt , t)a2(Xt)]dt+

∂xlnSi (Xt , t)a(Xt)dBt , t ≥ 0.

In equilibrium, the instantaneous risk premium is just d〈lnSi , ln L〉t , i.e. theincrement of the quadratic covariation of returns on Si with returns on L.

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Part 4: Examples of Diffusions on Unbounded Domain

Our results thus far apply only to diffusions on bounded domains.

Hence, our results thus far can’t be used to determine whether one canuniquely determine P in models like Black Scholes (1973) and Cox Ingersoll& Ross (1985) (aka CIR), where the diffusing state variable X lives on anunbounded domain such as (0,∞).

We don’t yet know the general theory here, but we do know two interestingexamples of it.

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Example 1: Black Scholes Model for a Stock Price

Suppose that the state variable X is a stock price whose initial value isobserved to be the positive constant S0.

Suppose we assume or observe zero interest rates and dividends and weassume that the spot price is geometric Brownian motion under Q:

dXt

Xt= σdWt , t ≥ 0.

Suppose only one stock option trades and from its observed market price, welearn the numerical value of σ.

All of our previous assumptions are in place except now we have allowed thediffusing state variable X to live on the unbounded domain (0,∞).

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Example 1: Black Scholes Model (con’d)

Recall the general ODE governing the positive function π(x) & the scalar λ:

a2(x)

2π′′(x) + b(x)π′(x)− r(x)π(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ (`, u).

In the BS model with zero rates, a2(x) = σ2x2, b(x) = r(x) = 0, ` = 0, andu =∞ so we want a positive function π(x) and a scalar λ solving the EulerODE:

σ2x2

2π′′(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ (0,∞).

In the class of twice differentiable functions, there are an uncountablyinfinite number of eigenpairs (λ, π) with π positive. This result implies Rosscan’t recover here because there are too many candidates for the value ofthe numeraire portfolio.

However, all of the positive functions π(x) are not square integrable. If weinsist on this condition as well, then there are no candidates for the value ofthe numeraire portfolio. Ross can’t recover again, but for a different reason.

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Example 2: CIR Model for the Short Rate

Suppose that after calibrating to caps, floors and swaptions, we find that theshort interest rate r solves the following mean-reverting square root processunder Q:

drt = (µ− κrt)dt + σ√rtdWt , t ≥ 0.

where r0, µ, κ, and σ are all known positive constants.

Recall the general ODE governing the positive function π(x) & the scalar λ:

a2(x)

2π′′(x) + b(x)π′(x)− r(x)π(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ (`, u).

Here, a2(x) = σ2x , b(x) = µ− κx , r(x) = x , ` = 0, and u =∞ so we wanta positive function π(x) and a scalar λ solving the linear ODE:

σ2x

2π′′(x) + (µ− κx)π′(x)− xπ(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ (0,∞).

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Example 2: CIR Model (Con’d)Recall we want a positive function π(x) and a scalar λ solving the ODE:

σ2x

2π′′(x) + (µ− κx)π′(x)− xπ(x) = −λπ(x), x ∈ (0,∞).

The scale density s(x) and speed density m(x) of the CIR process are:

s(x) = x−2µ

σ2 e2κσ2 x m(x) =

2

σ2x

σ2−1e−2κ

σ2 x .

These densities are used to determine the nature of the boundaries 0 and ∞.As is well known, ∞ is a natural boundary, while 0 is an entrance boundary

if µ ≥ σ2

2 and regular if µ ∈ (0, σ2

2 ). When 0 is an entrance boundary, we

must have the reflecting boundary condition limx↓0

f ′(x)s(x) = 0. When 0 is a

regular boundary, we choose to have this condition apply.

Suppose we consider the weighted square integrable function spaceL2((0,∞),m(x)dx) Then the spectrum is discrete with eigenvalues andeigenfunctions known in closed form (see e.g. Gorovoi and Linetsky (2004)).

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Example 2: CIR Model (Con’d)Examining the closed form expression for the eigenvalues, we observe thatthe lowest eigenvalue is λ0 = µ

σ2 (γ − κ), where γ ≡√κ2 + 2σ2.

Examining the closed form expression for the eigenfunctions, we observe that

the associated eigenfunction is π0(x) = e−γ−κ

σ2 x , which is positive. All of theother eigenfunctions switch signs at least once.

It follows that in the CIR short rate model, the value function for thenumeraire portfolio must be:

L(r , t) = π0(r)eλ0t = e−γ−κ

σ2 r+ µ

σ2 (γ−κ)t , r > 0, t ≥ 0.

Under P, Girsanov’s theorem implies that the short rate r solves:

drt = (µ− γrt)dt + σ√rtdBt , t ≥ 0,

where B is a standard Brownian motion. Hence, the short rate is still a CIRprocess under P, but with larger mean reversion since γ > κ.

In this example, Ross recovery succeeded and moreover we used his model!

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Summary

We highlighted Ross’s Theorem 1 and proposed an alternativepreference-free way to derive the same financial conclusion.

Our approach is based on imposing time homogeneity on the Q dynamics ofthe value L of Long’s numeraire portfolio when it is driven by a boundedtime homogeneous diffusion process X .

We showed how separation of variables allows us to separate beliefs frompreferences.

We explored two examples of unbounded diffusions. In the first (BlackScholes model for stock price), we are unable to recover the real world driftof the stock. In the second (CIR model for the short rate), we were able torecover the real world dynamics of the short rate.

At present, we do not have a general theory giving sufficient conditions forwhen Ross recovery succeeds for unbounded diffusions.

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