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Sticky continuous processes have consistent price systems

Pricing of Securities 2015-09-16 v3 Probability

Abstract

Under proportional transaction costs, a price process is said to have a consistent price system, if there is a semimartingale with an equivalent martingale measure that evolves within the bid-ask spread. We show that a continuous, multi-asset price process has a consistent price system, under arbitrarily small proportional transaction costs, if it satisfies a natural multi-dimensional generalization of the stickiness condition introduced by Guasoni [Math. Finance 16(3), 569-582 (2006)].

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@article{arxiv.1310.7857,
  title  = {Sticky continuous processes have consistent price systems},
  author = {Christian Bender and Mikko S. Pakkanen and Hasanjan Sayit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7857},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, v3: incorporates minor corrections and the proof of the main result has been clarified, to appear in Journal of Applied Probability

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