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Bridging Asset Pricing and Market Microstructure: Option Valuation in Roll’s Framework

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  • Davide Lauria

    (Department of Economics, Statistics & Finance, University of Calabria, 87036 Calabria, Italy
    Current address: Department of Management, University of Bergamo, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.)

  • W. Brent Lindquist

    (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042, USA)

  • Svetlozar T. Rachev

    (Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-1042, USA)

  • Yuan Hu

    (Independent Researcher, Rockville, MD 20852, USA)

Abstract

We introduce a binary tree for pricing contingent claims when the underlying security prices exhibit history dependence. We apply the model to the specific cases of moving-average and autoregressive behavior that are characteristic of price histories induced by market microstructure behavior. Our model is market-complete and arbitrage-free. When passing to the risk-neutral measure, the model preserves all parameters governing the natural-world price dynamics, including the instantaneous mean of the asset return and the instantaneous probabilities for the direction of asset price movement. This preservation holds for arbitrarily small, but non-zero, time increments characteristic of market microstructure transactions. In the (unrealistic) limit of continuous trading, the model reduces to continuous diffusion price processes, with the concomitant loss of the microstructure information.

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  • Davide Lauria & W. Brent Lindquist & Svetlozar T. Rachev & Yuan Hu, 2025. "Bridging Asset Pricing and Market Microstructure: Option Valuation in Roll’s Framework," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 18(5), pages 1-43, April.
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