Information-Theoretic Approach to Financial Market Modelling

Eckhard Platen

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Abstract: The paper treats the financial market as a communication system, using four information-theoretic assumptions to derive an idealized model with only one parameter. State variables are scalar stationary diffusions. The model minimizes the surprisal of the market and the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the benchmark-neutral pricing measure and the real-world probability measure. The state variables, their sums, and the growth optimal portfolio of the stocks evolve as squared radial Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes in respective activity times.

Date: 2026-02
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