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Pricing without martingale measure

Mathematical Finance 2019-05-13 v2

Abstract

For several decades, the no-arbitrage (NA) condition and the martingale measures have played a major role in the financial asset's pricing theory. We propose a new approach for estimating the super-replication cost based on convex duality instead of martingale measures duality: Our prices will be expressed using Fenchel conjugate and bi-conjugate. The super-hedging problem leads endogenously to a weak condition of NA called Absence of Immediate Profit (AIP). We propose several characterizations of AIP and study the relation with the classical notions of no-arbitrage. We also give some promising numerical illustrations.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04612,
  title  = {Pricing without martingale measure},
  author = {Julien Baptiste and Laurence Carassus and Emmanuel Lépinette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04612},
  year   = {2019}
}

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33 pages 6 figures

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