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The continuous behavior of the numeraire portfolio under small changes in information structure, probabilistic views and investment constraints

Pricing of Securities 2009-11-13 v2 Optimization and Control Probability

Abstract

The numeraire portfolio in a financial market is the unique positive wealth process that makes all other nonnegative wealth processes, when deflated by it, supermartingales. The numeraire portfolio depends on market characteristics, which include: (a) the information flow available to acting agents, given by a filtration; (b) the statistical evolution of the asset prices and, more generally, the states of nature, given by a probability measure; and (c) possible restrictions that acting agents might be facing on available investment strategies, modeled by a constraints set. In a financial market with continuous-path asset prices, we establish the stable behavior of the numeraire portfolio when each of the aforementioned market parameters is changed in an infinitesimal way.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2912,
  title  = {The continuous behavior of the numeraire portfolio under small changes in information structure, probabilistic views and investment constraints},
  author = {Constantinos Kardaras},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2912},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages; revised version