On free lunches in random walk markets with short-sale constraints and small transaction costs, and weak convergence to Gaussian continuous-time processes

Nils Framstad

No 20/2011, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper considers a sequence of discrete-time random walk markets with a single risky asset, and gives conditions for the existence of arbitrage opportunities or free lunches with vanishing risk, of the form of waiting to buy and selling the next period, with no shorting, and furthermore for weak convergence of the random walk to a Gaussian continuous-time stochastic process. The conditions are given in terms of the kernel representation with respect to ordinary Brownian motion and the discretisation chosen. Arbitrage examples are established where the continuous analogue is arbitrage-free under small transaction costs – including for the semimartingale modifications of fractional Brownian motion suggested in the seminal Rogers (1997) article proving arbitrage in fBm models.

Keywords: Stock price model; random walk; Gaussian processes; weak convergence; free lunch with vanishing risk; arbitrage; transaction costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 D53 D81 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2011-09-14
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