The Mathematics of Arbitrage

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Springer Science & Business Media, 14 de fev. de 2006 - 371 páginas

Proof of the "Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing" in its general form by Delbaen and Schachermayer was a milestone in the history of modern mathematical finance and now forms the cornerstone of this book.

Puts into book format a series of major results due mostly to the authors of this book.

Embeds highest-level research results into a treatment amenable to graduate students, with introductory, explanatory background.

Awaited in the quantitative finance community.

 

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Página 9 - This brings us to a first — informal and intuitive — definition of arbitrage: an arbitrage opportunity is the possibility to make a profit in a financial market without risk and without net investment of capital. The principle of no- arbitrage states that a mathematical model of a financial market should not allow for arbitrage possibilities.
Página 9 - A currency option may be defined as a contract between two parties — a buyer and a seller — whereby the buyer of the option has the right but not the obligation, to buy...
Página 372 - Heath, (1972), Existence of equilibria in economics with infinitely many commodities.
Página 9 - Euro/Dollar example above, we consider a still extremely simple mathematical model of a financial market: there are two assets, called the bond and the stock. The bond is riskless, hence by definition we know what it is worth tomorrow. For (mainly notational) simplicity we neglect interest rates and assume that the price of a bond equals 1€ today as well as tomorrow, ie, Bo = Bi...
Página 13 - Variations of the Example Although the preceding "toy example" is extremely simple and, of course, far from reality, it contains the heart of the matter: the possibility of replicating a contingent claim, eg an option, by trading on the existing assets and to apply the no-arbitrage principle.

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Walter Schachermeyer, born in 1950 in Linz, Austria, has received--as the first mathematician--the 1998 Wittgenstein Award, Austria's highest honor for scienctific achievement. Since 1998 he holds the Chair for Actuarial and Financial Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technolgoy. Among his achievements is the proof of the "Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing" in its general form, which was done in joint work with Freddy Delbaen.

Freddy Delbaen, born in 1946 in Duffel/Antwerpen, Belgium, is Professor for Financial Mathematics at the ETH in Zurich since 1995.

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