Fragility of Local Martingale Diffusion Models of Arbitrage and Bubbles

17 Pages Posted: 1 Jun 2011 Last revised: 3 Feb 2014

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Paolo Guasoni

Boston University - Department of Mathematics and Statistics; Dublin City University - School of Mathematical Sciences; University of Bologna - Department of Statistics

Miklos Rasonyi

University of Edinburgh - School of Mathematics

Date Written: January 29, 2014

Abstract

For any positive diffusion with minimal regularity, there exists a semimartingale, with uniformly close paths, which is a martingale under an equivalent probability. As a result, in models of asset prices based on such diffusions, arbitrage and bubbles alike disappear under proportional transaction costs, or under small model misspecifications. Thus, local martingale models of arbitrage and bubbles are not robust to small trading and monitoring frictions.

Keywords: Arbitrage, Bubbles, Transaction Costs, Local Martingales

JEL Classification: G12

Suggested Citation

Guasoni, Paolo and Guasoni, Paolo and Rasonyi, Miklos, Fragility of Local Martingale Diffusion Models of Arbitrage and Bubbles (January 29, 2014). Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2011-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1856223 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1856223

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Dublin City University - School of Mathematical Sciences ( email )

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University of Bologna - Department of Statistics ( email )

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Miklos Rasonyi

University of Edinburgh - School of Mathematics ( email )

United Kingdom

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