The Merton Jump-Diffusion Model: Pricing with Discontinuities
Students often struggle with the drift adjustment term . It is vital to recognize this as the 'martingale correction'; without subtracting the expected value of the jumps from the drift, the asset price process would not be a martingale under the risk-neutral measure, leading to arbitrage opportunities.
Institutional Reference: Advanced Stochastic Processes
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