Arbitrage, linear programming and martingales¶in securities markets with bid-ask spreads

Fulvio Ortu

Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2001, vol. 24, issue 2, 79-105

Abstract: In a general, finite-dimensional securities market model with bid-ask spreads, we characterize absence of arbitrage opportunities both by linear programming and in terms of martingales. We first show that absence of arbitrage is equivalent to the existence of solutions to the linear programming problems that compute the minimum costs of super-replicating the feasible future cashflows. Via duality, we show that absence of arbitrage is also equivalent to the existence of underlying frictionless (UF) state-prices. We then show how to transform the UF state-prices into state-price densities, and use them to characterize absence of arbitrage opportunities in terms of existence of a securities market with zero bid-ask spreads whose price process lies inside the bid-ask spread. Finally, we argue that our results extend those of Naik (1995) and Jouini and Kallal (1995) to the case of intermediate dividend payments and positive bid-ask spreads on all assets. Copyright Springer-Verlag Italia 2001

Keywords: Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 91B28; 91B70; Journal of Economic Literature Classification: C61; C63; G10; G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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