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In the Heston model, the variance process v_t is not a traded asset.

How does this affect the Girsanov change of measure to the risk-neutral measure Q?

  1. An additional market price of risk for the variance must be assumed or calibrated, as it is not uniquely determined by the stock price.
  2. The market price of risk attached to variance is automatically zero under any correctly specified arbitrage-free model.
  3. The variance process itself becomes fully deterministic once we switch over from mathbbP to the risk-neutral pricing measure Q.
  4. The variance drift stays exactly the same as under mathbbP, since only directly traded assets have their drifts shifted by Girsanov's theorem.

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