Jump process

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A jump process is a type of stochastic process that has discrete movements, called jumps, with random arrival times, rather than continuous movement. It is typically modelled as a simple or compound Poisson process.[1]

In finance, various stochastic models are used to model the price movements of financial instruments; for example the Black–Scholes model for pricing options assumes that the underlying instrument follows a traditional diffusion process, with continuous, random movements at all scales, no matter how small. John Carrington Cox and Stephen Ross[2]: 145–166  proposed that prices actually follow a 'jump process'.

Robert C. Merton extended this approach to a hybrid model known as jump diffusion, which states that the prices have large jumps interspersed with small continuous movements.[3]

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  1. ^ Tankov, P. (2003). Financial modelling with jump processes (Vol. 2). CRC press.
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