Pricing without no-arbitrage condition in discrete time
Abstract
In a discrete time setting, we study the central problem of giving a fair price to some financial product. For several decades, the no-arbitrage conditions and the martingale measures have played a major role for solving this problem. We propose a new approach for estimating the super-replication cost based on convex duality instead of martingale measures duality: The prices are expressed using Fenchel conjugate and bi-conjugate without using any no-arbitrage condition.The super-hedging problem resolution leads endogenously to a weak no-arbitrage condition called Absence of Instantaneous Profit (AIP) under which prices are finite. We study this condition in details, propose several characterizations and compare it to the no-arbitrage condition.
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@article{arxiv.2104.02688,
title = {Pricing without no-arbitrage condition in discrete time},
author = {Laurence Carassus and Emmanuel Lépinette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.02688},
year = {2021}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.04612