Modern Stochastics: Theory and Applications

In many practical systems, the load changes at the moments when random events occur, which are often modeled as arrivals in a Poisson process independent of the current load state. This modeling approach is widely applicable in areas such as telecommunications, queueing theory, and reliability engineering. This motivates the development of models that combine family-wise scaling with non-Gaussian driving mechanisms, capturing discontinuities or jump-type behavior. In this paper, a stationary time series is formed from increments of a family-wise scaling process defined on the positive real line. This family-wise scaling process is expressed as an integral of a pseudo-Poisson type process. It is established that this stationary time series exhibits long-range dependence, as indicated by an autocovariance function that decays following a power law with a slowly varying component, and a spectral density that displays a power-law divergence at low frequencies. The autocovariances are not summable, indicating strong correlations over long time intervals. This framework extends the classical results on fractional Gaussian noise as well as on series driven by Poisson-type or Lévy-type noise. Additionally, it provides a versatile methodology for the spectral analysis of one-sided long-memory stochastic processes.

In this note the maximization of the expected terminal wealth for the setup of quadratic transaction costs is considered. First, a very simple probabilistic solution to the problem is provided. Although the problem was largely studied, as far as authors know up to date this simple and probabilistic form of the solution has not appeared in the literature. Next, the general result is applied for the numerical study of the case where the risky asset is given by a fractional Brownian motion and the information flow of the investor can be diversified.

We find the best approximation of the fractional Brownian motion with the Hurst index $H\in (0,1/2)$ by Gaussian martingales of the form ${\textstyle\int _{0}^{t}}{s^{\gamma }}d{W_{s}}$, where W is a Wiener process, $\gamma >0$.

It was recently proved that any strictly stationary stochastic process can be viewed as an autoregressive process of order one with coloured noise. Furthermore, it was proved that, using this characterisation, one can define closed form estimators for the model parameter based on autocovariance estimators for several different lags. However, this estimation procedure may fail in some special cases. In this article, a detailed analysis of these special cases is provided. In particular, it is proved that these cases correspond to degenerate processes.

Our aim in this paper is to establish some strong stability properties of a solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion for which the pathwise uniqueness holds. The results are obtained using Skorokhod’s selection theorem.