IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/the/publsh/4034.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Asymptotic synthesis of contingent claims with controlled risk in a sequence of discrete-time markets

Author

Listed:
  • Kreps, David M.

    (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)

  • Schachermayer, Walter

    (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna)

Abstract

We examine the connection between discrete-time models of financial markets and the celebrated Black--Scholes--Merton (BSM) continuous-time model in which ``markets are complete." Suppose that (a) the probability law of a sequence of discrete-time models converges to the law of the BSM model and (b) the largest possible one-period step in the discrete-time models converges to zero. We prove that, under these assumptions, every bounded and continuous contingent claim can be asymptotically synthesized, controlling for the risks taken in a manner that implies, for instance, that an expected-utility-maximizing consumer can asymptotically obtain as much utility in the (possibly incomplete) discrete-time economies as she can at the continuous-time limit. Hence, in economically significant ways, many discrete-time models with frequent trading resemble the complete-markets model of BSM.

Suggested Citation

  • Kreps, David M. & Schachermayer, Walter, 2021. "Asymptotic synthesis of contingent claims with controlled risk in a sequence of discrete-time markets," Theoretical Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 16(1), January.
    • Handle: RePEc:the:publsh:4034
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://econtheory.org/ojs/index.php/te/article/viewFile/20210025/29612/842
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. B. Acciaio & M. Beiglbock & F. Penkner & W. Schachermayer & J. Temme, 2012. "A trajectorial interpretation of Doob's martingale inequalities," Papers 1202.0447, arXiv.org, revised Jul 2013.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Cox, Alexander M.G. & Obłój, Jan, 2015. "On joint distributions of the maximum, minimum and terminal value of a continuous uniformly integrable martingale," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 125(8), pages 3280-3300.
    2. Yan Dolinsky & H. Soner, 2014. "Robust hedging with proportional transaction costs," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 327-347, April.
    3. Pierre Henry-Labordère & Nizar Touzi, 2016. "An explicit martingale version of the one-dimensional Brenier theorem," Finance and Stochastics, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 635-668, July.
    4. Pierre Henry-Labordere & Nizar Touzi, 2013. "An Explicit Martingale Version of Brenier's Theorem," Papers 1302.4854, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2013.
    5. Florian Stebegg, 2014. "Model-Independent Pricing of Asian Options via Optimal Martingale Transport," Papers 1412.1429, arXiv.org.
    6. Gaoyue Guo & Xiaolu Tan & Nizar Touzi, 2015. "Tightness and duality of martingale transport on the Skorokhod space," Papers 1507.01125, arXiv.org, revised Aug 2016.
    7. Beatrice Acciaio & Mathias Beiglbock & Friedrich Penkner & Walter Schachermayer, 2013. "A model-free version of the fundamental theorem of asset pricing and the super-replication theorem," Papers 1301.5568, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2013.
    8. Prakasa Rao, B.L.S., 2012. "Remarks on maximal inequalities for non-negative demisubmartingales," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(7), pages 1388-1390.
    9. Pierre Henry-Labordere & Nizar Touzi, 2013. "An Explicit Martingale Version of Brenier's Theorem," Working Papers hal-00790001, HAL.
    10. Yan Dolinsky & H. Mete Soner, 2017. "Convex Duality with Transaction Costs," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 42(2), pages 448-471, May.
    11. Guo, Gaoyue & Tan, Xiaolu & Touzi, Nizar, 2017. "Tightness and duality of martingale transport on the Skorokhod space," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 127(3), pages 927-956.
    12. Beatrice Acciaio & Antonio Marini & Gudmund Pammer, 2023. "Calibration of the Bass Local Volatility model," Papers 2311.14567, arXiv.org.
    13. Dolinsky, Yan & Soner, H. Mete, 2015. "Martingale optimal transport in the Skorokhod space," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 125(10), pages 3893-3931.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Market completeness; Black-Scholes-Merton model; synthesis of contingent claims;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D0 - Microeconomics - - General
    • G0 - Financial Economics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:the:publsh:4034. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Martin J. Osborne (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://econtheory.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.