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Local martingales, arbitrage, and viability

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  • Mark Loewenstein

    (John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in Saint Louis, Campus Box 1133, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA)

  • Gregory A. Willard

    () (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Memorial Drive, E52-431, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA)

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    Abstract

    We revisit a standard model of security prices as Ito processes, and provide some new economic insights about the role of arbitrage and credit limits within such a model. We show that the standard assumptions of a positive state prices and existence of an equivalent martingale measure exclude prices that are viable models of competitive equilibrium and that are potentially useful for modeling actual financial markets. These models have been dismissed in the past as allowing arbitrage, but in fact an agent who prefers more to less and who has limited access to credit may have an optimum.

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    Article provided by Springer in its journal Economic Theory.

    Volume (Year): 16 (2000)
    Issue (Month): 1 ()
    Pages: 135-161

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    Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:16:y:2000:i:1:p:135-161

    Note: Received: June 9, 1999; revised version: October 4, 1999
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    Keywords: Arbitrage; Viability; Wealth constraints; Continuous-time financial markets; Equivalent martingale measures.;

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    Cited by:
    1. Claudio Fontana, 2013. "Weak and strong no-arbitrage conditions for continuous financial markets," Papers 1302.7192, arXiv.org.
    2. Claudio Fontana & Bernt {\O}ksendal & Agn\`es Sulem, 2013. "Viability and martingale measures under partial information," Papers 1302.4254, arXiv.org.

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