On statistical indistinguishability of the complete and incomplete markets

Nikolai Dokuchaev

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Abstract: The possibility of statistical evaluation of the market completeness and incompleteness is investigated for continuous time diffusion stock market models. It is known that the market completeness is not a robust property: small random deviations of the coefficients convert a complete market model into a incomplete one. The paper shows that market incompleteness is also non-robust: small deviations can convert an incomplete model into a complete one. More precisely, it is shown that, for any incomplete market from a wide class of models, there exists a complete market model with arbitrarily close paths of the stock prices and the market parameters. This leads to a counterintuitive conclusion that the incomplete markets are indistinguishable from the complete markets in the terms of the market statistics.

Date: 2012-09, Revised 2013-05
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