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An Elementary Exposition of the No Strong Arbitrage Principle for Financial Markets

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  • Robert A. Becker

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A Linear Pricing Rule is established for the No Strong Arbitrate Principle (NSAP) in a finite state, single period asset pricing model. The (NSAP) condition is a statement about the inconsistency of a particular system of linear inequalities. The novelty here lies in the use of the Kuhn-Motzkin-Fourier elimination technique that derives the corresponding dual linear inequality system using elementary methods only. The advantage is that a familiar computational scheme yields the relationship between the (NSAP) inequalities and their dual system. Indeed, the method uncovers why the dual inequality system is, in fact, a dual system in the first place. Students and researchers unfamiliar with systems of dual linear inequalities and Theorems of the Alternative may find the approach taken here as a way to better understand the motivation and use of these techniques.

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  • Robert A. Becker, 2017. "An Elementary Exposition of the No Strong Arbitrage Principle for Financial Markets," CAEPR Working Papers 2017-005, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington.
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    Keywords

    No Strong Arbitrage; arbitrage; Farkas Lemma; Kuhn-Motzkin-Fourier Elimination; state prices; linear inequalities;
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis

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