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The changes of numeraire can be used as a very powerful tool in pricing contingent claims in the context of a complete market. By using the method of numeraire changes to evaluate convertible bonds when the value of firm, and those of zero-coupon bonds follow general adapted stochastic processes in this paper, using It_o theorem and Gisanov theorem. A closed-form solution is derived under the stochastic volatility by using fast Fourier transforms.
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This paper was supported by the National key scientific instrument and Equipment Development Program of China under Grant No. 2012YQ220119; Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation under Grant No. 1308085 MF93; the Fundamental Research Foundation for the Central Universities under Grant No. 2013HGXJ0223, and National Natural Science Foundations of China under Grant No. 11201108.
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Jia, Z., Zhang, S. Pricing convertible bonds and change of probability measure. J Syst Sci Complex 26, 968–977 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-013-2061-1
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