Bubbles in discrete time models

Martin Herdegen and D\"orte Kreher

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Abstract: We introduce a new definition of speculative bubbles in discrete-time models based on the discounted stock price losing mass at some finite drop-down under an equivalent martingale measure. We provide equivalent probabilistic characterisations of this definition and give examples of discrete-time martingales that are speculative bubbles and those that are not. In the Markovian case, we provide sufficient analytic conditions for the presence of speculative bubbles. We also show that the existence of speculative bubbles is directly linked to the existence of a non-trivial solution to a linear Volterra integral equation of the second kind involving the Markov kernel. Finally, we show that our definition of speculative bubbles in discrete time is consistent with the strict local martingale definition of speculative bubbles in continuous time in the sense that a properly discretised strict local martingale in continuous time is a speculative bubble in discrete time.

Date: 2021-04, Revised 2022-07
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