An Option Pricing Model with Memory

We obtain option pricing formulas for stock price models in which the drift and volatility terms are functionals of a continuous history of the stock prices. That is, the stock dynamics follows a nonlinear stochastic functional differential equation. A model with full memory is obtained via approximation through a stock price model in which the continuous path dependence does not go up to the present: there is a memory gap. A strong solution is obtained by closing the gap. Fair option prices are...