Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2016 / iii / Paper 211 / 1 / a / Solution

The natural filtration of $S$ is the natural Brownian filtration: since $\sigma >0$, the equation $W_t=(\log (S_t/S_0)-\mu t)/\sigma$ recovers the entire Brownian motion history from the stock history. For $s<t$, independent increments and the moment-generating function of a normal distribution giveAll these expectations are finite. Since $S_s>0$, the martingale identity holds for every $s<t$ exactly when the last exponential equals one. The required logarithmic drift isThis is the distinction between the drift of $\log S$ and the drift of $S$: here the latter is zero.