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Diversity and Arbitrage in a Regulatory Breakup Model

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  • Winslow Strong
  • Jean-Pierre Fouque

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In 1999 Robert Fernholz observed an inconsistency between the normative assumption of existence of an equivalent martingale measure (EMM) and the empirical reality of diversity in equity markets. We explore a method of imposing diversity on market models by a type of antitrust regulation that is compatible with EMMs. The regulatory procedure breaks up companies that become too large, while holding the total number of companies constant by imposing a simultaneous merge of other companies. The regulatory events are assumed to have no impact on portfolio values. As an example, regulation is imposed on a market model in which diversity is maintained via a log-pole in the drift of the largest company. The result is the removal of arbitrage opportunities from this market while maintaining the market's diversity.

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  • Winslow Strong & Jean-Pierre Fouque, 2010. "Diversity and Arbitrage in a Regulatory Breakup Model," Papers 1003.5650, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2010.
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