“…The first passage problem for this class of processes has been treated extensively, for instance, by Segerdahl (1942), Delbaen and Haezendonck (1987), Garrido (1989), Asmussen and Bladt (1996), Paulsen (1993), Embrechts and Schmidli (1994), Peters (1994), Sundt and Teugels (1995), Gjessing (1997a, 1997b), Dickson and Waters (1999), Norberg (1999), Wang and Wu (2001), Cai and Dickson (2002), Kalashnikov & Norberg (2002), Göing-Jeaschke & Yor (2003), Novikov (2003), Ma and Sun (2003), Wang (2004, 2005), Cai (2004), Cai & Yang (2005), Gaier & Grandits (2004), Paulsen, Kasozi & Steigen (2005) and Gerber & Yang (2007). However, despite of the common previous use of the constant volatility per unit rule, k(U t ) = s r , this assumption may not be regarded as totally realistic in many rational investments.…”