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Arbitrage Problems with Reflected Geometric Brownian Motion

Mathematical Finance 2022-09-07 v2

Abstract

Contrary to the claims made by several authors, a financial market model in which the price of a risky security follows a reflected geometric Brownian motion is not arbitrage-free. In fact, such models violate even the weakest no-arbitrage condition considered in the literature. Consequently, they do not admit num\'eraire portfolios or equivalent risk-neutral probability measures, which makes them totally unsuitable for contingent claim valuation. Unsurprisingly, the published option pricing formulae for such models violate textbook no-arbitrage bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2201.05312,
  title  = {Arbitrage Problems with Reflected Geometric Brownian Motion},
  author = {Dean Buckner and Kevin Dowd and Hardy Hulley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05312},
  year   = {2022}
}
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