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Modeling financial assets without semimartingales

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Abstract

This paper does not suppose a priori that the evolution of the price of a financial asset is a semimartingale. Since possible strategies of investors are self-financing, previous prices are forced to be finite quadratic variation processes. The non-arbitrage property is not excluded if the class A{\cal A} of admissible strategies is restricted. The classical notion of martingale is replaced with the notion of A{\cal A}-martingale. A calculus related to A{\cal A}-martingales with some examples is developed. Some applications to the maximization of the utility of an insider are expanded.

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@article{arxiv.math/0606642,
  title  = {Modeling financial assets without semimartingales},
  author = {Rosanna Coviello and Francesco Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0606642},
  year   = {2007}
}

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53 pages