Bounded Girsanov density for exit of an unstable linear diffusion

ID: bounded-girsanov-density-for-exit-of-an-unstable-linear-diffusion

Under , let be standard Brownian motion started at zero and let be its first exit from . The Itô formula makes
the stochastic exponential with integrand . Since , it is a uniformly integrable martingale and defines on the whole original sigma-algebra. The Girsanov theorem makes a Brownian motion under .
At exit, and , so . On , integrate these likelihood bounds in to obtain
A lower bound on gives an upper bound on in terms of ; reversing that direction gives an invalid comparison.

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