On the Laplace transforms of the first exit times in one-dimensional non-affine jump–diffusion models

Abstract

We compute the Laplace transforms of the first exit times for certain one-dimensional jump–diffusion processes from two-sided intervals. The method of proof is based on the solutions of the associated integro-differential boundary value problems for the corresponding value functions. We consider jump–diffusion processes solving stochastic differential equations driven by Brownian motions and several independent compound Poisson processes with multi-exponential jumps. The results are illustrated on the non-affine pure jump analogues of certain mean-reverting or diverting diffusion processes which represent closed-form solutions of the appropriate stochastic differential equations.