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Supermartingale deflators in the absence of a num\'eraire

Mathematical Finance 2021-03-18 v3

Abstract

In this paper we study arbitrage theory of financial markets in the absence of a num\'eraire both in discrete and continuous time. In our main results, we provide a generalization of the classical equivalence between no unbounded profits with bounded risk (NUPBR) and the existence of a supermartingale deflator. To obtain the desired results, we introduce a new approach based on disintegration of the underlying probability space into spaces where the market crashes at deterministic times.

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@article{arxiv.2001.05906,
  title  = {Supermartingale deflators in the absence of a num\'eraire},
  author = {Philipp Harms and Chong Liu and Ariel Neufeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05906},
  year   = {2021}
}

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33 pages