Lower and Upper Pricing of Financial Assets

26 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2020 Last revised: 5 Aug 2021

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Robert J. Elliott

University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business; University of South Australia

Dilip B. Madan

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

Ken Siu

Macquarie University; Financial Research Network (FIRN); Macquarie University, Macquarie Business School

Date Written: October 20, 2020

Abstract

Modeling of uncertainty by probability errs by ignoring the uncertainty in probability. When financial valuation recognizes the uncertainty of probability the best the market may offer is a two price framework of a lower and upper valuation. The martingale theory of asset prices is then replaced by the theory of nonlinear martingales. When dealing with pure jump compensators describing probability the uncertainty in probability is captured by introducing parametric measure distortions. The two price framework then alters asset pricing theory by requiring two required return equations one each for the lower upper valuation. Proxying lower and upper valuations by daily lows and highs the paper delivers the first empirical study of nonlinear martingales via the modeling and simultaneous estimation of the two required return equations.

Keywords: Bilateral Gamma Model, Acceptable Risks, Probability Distortions, Hidden Markov Model, Filtered Markets.

JEL Classification: G10, G12, G13

Suggested Citation

Elliott, Robert James and Madan, Dilip B. and Siu, Ken, Lower and Upper Pricing of Financial Assets (October 20, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3715608 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3715608

Robert James Elliott

University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business ( email )

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University of South Australia ( email )

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Australia

Dilip B. Madan (Contact Author)

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business ( email )

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United States
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Ken Siu

Macquarie University ( email )

North Ryde
Sydney, New South Wales 2109
Australia

Financial Research Network (FIRN)

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St Lucia, 4071 Brisbane
Queensland
Australia

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Macquarie University, Macquarie Business School ( email )

New South Wales 2109
Australia

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