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Criteria for the absence of arbitrage in general diffusion markets

Mathematical Finance 2024-09-04 v2 Probability

Abstract

We establish deterministic necessary and sufficient conditions for the no-arbitrage notions NA ("no arbitrage"), NUPBR ("no unbounded profit with bounded risk") and NFLVR ("no free lunch with vanishing risk") in general diffusion market models with finite and infinite time horizons. These are single asset models whose (discounted) asset price process YY is a regular continuous strong Markov process that is also a semimartingale. We further characterize the existence of an equivalent martingale measure in such models. All deterministic criteria are provided in terms of the scale function and the speed measure of YY.

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@article{arxiv.2306.11470,
  title  = {Criteria for the absence of arbitrage in general diffusion markets},
  author = {David Criens and Mikhail Urusov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11470},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Major update. In particular, we added a deterministic characterization of the no arbitrage notion NA