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Fragility of arbitrage and bubbles in local martingale diffusion models

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  • Paolo Guasoni
  • Miklós Rásonyi

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For any positive diffusion with minimal regularity, there exists a semimartingale with uniformly close paths that 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 mis-specifications. Thus, local martingale diffusion models of arbitrage and bubbles are not robust to small trading and monitoring frictions. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Paolo Guasoni & Miklós Rásonyi, 2015. "Fragility of arbitrage and bubbles in local martingale diffusion models," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 215-231, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:finsto:v:19:y:2015:i:2:p:215-231
    DOI: 10.1007/s00780-015-0256-0
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    Keywords

    Arbitrage; Bubbles; Transaction costs; Local martingales; 91G10; 62P05; G12;
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    JEL classification:

    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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