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48 results for Free Market

The main result of the paper is a version of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing (FTAP) for large financial markets based on an asymptotic concept of no market free lunch for monotone concave preferences. The proof uses methods from the theory of Orlicz spaces. Moreover, various notions of no asymptotic arbitrage …

2007-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The key characteristic of a true free market economy is that exchanges are entirely voluntary. When there is a monopoly in the creation of currency as we have in today's markets, you no longer have a true free market. Features of the current economic system such as central banking and taxation would be nonexistent in a…

2015-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

A model-free hedging method using stock crowding scores.

problem Designing costless portfolio strategies to hedge market risk.
method Network analysis of fund holdings to compute crowding scores, constructing long-short portfolios without numerical optimization.
result Long-short portfolios provide protection against both small and large market price fluctuations.

All DeFi markets are essentially CFMMs with increasing invariants.

problem Ensuring DeFi markets are free of arbitrage opportunities.
method Formalizing DeFi markets as CFMMs and proving the existence of increasing invariants.
result A DeFi market is arbitrage-free if and only if it has an increasing invariant.

Financial markets display scale-free behavior in many different aspects. The power-law behavior of part of the distribution of individual wealth has been recognized by Pareto as early as the nineteenth century. Heavy-tailed and scale-free behavior of the distribution of returns of different financial assets have been c…

2009-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks can find financial arbitrage opportunities without needing market models.

problem Finding arbitrage opportunities in financial markets without using market models.
method Used neural networks to solve convex semi-infinite programs and detect arbitrage opportunities.
result Neural networks can detect model-free static arbitrage strategies in financial markets.

Study on stock trading model with uncertain market status, proving free boundaries and optimal strategies.

problem Optimal trading strategies in a stock market with uncertain market status.
method Free boundary problem, variational inequality system, degenerate operator, C^∞-smoothness.
result All four switching free boundaries are no-overlapping, monotonic, and C^∞-smooth, and their relative localities are completely determined.

This study shows how monetary uncertainty affects stock market reactions to macroeconomic news.

problem Understanding stock market reactions to macroeconomic news under varying levels of monetary uncertainty.
method Decomposes stock market response into cash flow and risk-free rate channels, analyzing time-varying effects.
result High monetary uncertainty weakens the positive stock market response to macroeconomic news.

The paper simplifies hedging and portfolio allocation in markets without a risk-free asset.

problem Optimal hedging and portfolio allocation in markets without a risk-free asset.
method Establishes equivalence between hedging with and without numeraire change, uses oblique projections.
result Explicit expressions for optimal strategies and efficient frontier computation.

A stock market is called diverse if no stock can dominate the market in terms of relative capitalization. On one hand, this natural property leads to arbitrage in diffusion models under mild assumptions. On the other hand, it is also easy to construct diffusion models which are both diverse and free of arbitrage. Can o…

2013-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Simulates multi-asset spot and option markets using normalizing flows.

problem High-dimensionality of market call prices and dynamic preservation across simulators.
method Normalizing flows for efficient low-dimensional representations, conditional invertibility for joint distribution calibration.
result Calibrated simulators maintain dynamics of each underlying and accurately represent market call prices.

It is assumed that under suitable economic and information-theoretic conditions, market exchange rates are free from arbitrage. Commodity markets in which trades occur over a complete graph are shown to be trivial. We therefore examine the vector space of no-arbitrage exchange rate ensembles over an arbitrary connected…

2014-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper explores rough path theory for frictionless markets, linking NCFL to unbiased rough integrators.

problem Tackles the limits of rough path theory in frictionless markets.
method Investigates the capacity of rough path theory to support No Free Lunch markets.
result Establishes a 'Rough Kreps-Yan' theorem linking NCFL to unbiased rough integrators.

Generative diffusion models forecast implied vol surfaces without arbitrage issues.

problem Forecasting arbitrage-free implied volatility surfaces using historical data with path-dependent dynamics.
method Generative diffusion model (DDPM) with conditional training on market variables, including EWMAs and returns. Dynamic penalty scheme based on SNR to enforce arbitrage-free surfaces.
result Superior performance in volatility forecasting compared to existing methods.

We consider arbitrage free valuation of European options in Black-Scholes and Merton markets, where the general structure of the market is known, however the specific parameters are not known. In order to reflect this subjective uncertainty of a market participant, we follow a Bayesian approach to option pricing. Here …

2016-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The article presents a description of geometry of Banach structures forming mathematical base of markets arbitrage absence type phenomena. In this connection the role of reflexive subspaces (replacing classically considered finite-dimensional subspaces) and plasterable cones is uncovered.

2014-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper calibrates a model to market quotes efficiently and arbitrage-free.

problem Calibrating a model to market option quotes efficiently and without arbitrage.
method Piecewise-linear local variance function for efficient calibration.
result Arbitrage-free interpolation of class C2C^2 achieved under one millisecond.

In the UK betting market, bookmakers often offer a free coupon to new customers. These free coupons allow the customer to place extra bets, at lower risk, in combination with the usual betting odds. We are interested in whether a customer can exploit these free coupons in order to make a sure gain, and if so, how the c…

2019-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

No universal trading strategy exists due to mathematical impossibilities.

problem The impossibility of universally winning trading strategies in competitive markets.
method Three mathematical paradigms: measure-theoretic, No-Free-Lunch theorem, and adversarial Cantor diagonalization.
result No-arbitrage and free-lunch principles are mathematically precluded in competitive markets.

This paper considers a sequence of discrete-time random walk markets with a safe and a single risky investment opportunity, and gives conditions for the existence of arbitrages 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 conv…

2012-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Combines model-based and model-free RL for better financial market performance.

problem Challenges of Reinforcement Learning in volatile financial markets.
method Adapts model-based RL with model-free RL, incorporating contextual signals and walk-forward analysis.
result Outperforms traditional financial models in various metrics.

A new model uses a Levy-driven process to value credit index swaptions.

problem Valuation of credit index swaptions in financial markets.
method Proposes a Levy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to model risk-free rate and default intensities.
result Derives formulas for characteristic function, moments, and stationary distribution.

Company mergers and acquisitions are often perceived to act as catalysts for corporate growth in free markets systems: it is conventional wisdom that those activities lead to better and more efficient markets. However, the broad adoption of this perception into corporate strategy is prone to result in a less diverse an…

2014-01-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A model-free framework extracts risk-neutral densities from short-dated options.

problem Arbitrage and bid-ask spread issues in short-dated options.
method Develops ARIES for filtering static arbitrage and SEDEx for density extraction.
result Robust density extraction across various market conditions and volatility smiles construction.

We consider a market with fractional Brownian motion with stochastic integrals generated by the Riemann sums. We found that this market is arbitrage free if admissible strategies that are using observations with an arbitrarily small delay. Moreover, we found that this approach eliminates the discontinuity of the stocha…

2015-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We re-examine and extend the findings from the recent paper by Dumitrescu, Quenez and Sulem (2018) who studied American and game options in a particular market model using the nonlinear arbitrage-free pricing approach developed in El Karoui and Quenez (1997). In the first part, we provide a detailed study of unilateral…

2018-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

In this article we present a continuous time model for natural gas and crude oil future prices. Its main feature is the possibility to link both energies in the long term and in the short term. For each energy, the future returns are represented as the sum of volatility functions driven by motions. Under the risk neutr…

2007-12-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to robustly estimate volatility from OTM options.

problem Accurately measuring volatility in real-world markets with limited option trading.
method Constructs an arbitrage-free continuous option pricing function from bid-ask spreads of OTM options.
result Robustly calculates volatility indices with theoretical consistency, even in low-liquidity markets.

Without probability theory, we define classes of supermartingales, martingales, and semimartingales in idealized financial markets with continuous price paths. This allows us to establish probability-free versions of a number of standard results in martingale theory, including the Dubins-Schwarz theorem, the Girsanov t…

2017-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗