IMPLICIT TRANSACTION COSTS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREMS OF ASSET PRICING

Erindi Allaj ()
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Erindi Allaj: Universitá di Roma Tor Vergata, Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance (IJTAF), 2017, vol. 20, issue 04, 1-39

Abstract: This paper studies arbitrage pricing theory in financial markets with implicit transaction costs. We extend the existing theory to include the more realistic possibility that the price at which the investors trade is dependent on the traded volume. The investors in the market always buy at the ask and sell at the bid price. Implicit transaction costs are composed of two terms, one is able to capture the bid-ask spread, and the second the price impact. Moreover, a new definition of a self-financing portfolio is obtained. The self-financing condition suggests that continuous trading is possible, but is restricted to predictable trading strategies having cádlág (right-continuous with left limits) and cáglád (left-continuous with right limits) paths of bounded quadratic variation and of finitely many jumps. That is, cádlág and cáglád predictable trading strategies of infinite variation, with finitely many jumps and of finite quadratic variation are allowed in our setting. Restricting ourselves to cáglád predictable trading strategies, we show that the existence of an equivalent probability measure is equivalent to the absence of arbitrage opportunities, so that the first fundamental theorem of asset pricing (FFTAP) holds. It is also shown that the use of continuous and bounded variation trading strategies can improve the efficiency of hedging in a market with implicit transaction costs. To better understand how to apply the theory proposed we provide an example of an implicit transaction cost economy that is linear and nonlinear in the order size.

Keywords: Arbitrage pricing theory; transaction costs; fundamental theorems of arbitrage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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