Martingale representations in dynamic enlargement setting: the role of the accessible jump times

Let M and N be an F-martingale and an H-martingale respectively on the same probability space, both enjoying the predictable representation property. We discuss how, under the assumption of the existence of an equivalent decoupling measure for F and H, the nature of the jump times of M and N affects the representation of the FVH-martingales. More precisely we show that the multiplicity of FVH depends on the behavior of the common accessible jump times of the two martingales. Then we propose an extension of Kusuoka's representation theorem to the case when the Brownian Motion is replaced by a semi-martingale which may jump at the default time with positive probability

On arbitrages arising from honest times

In the context of a general continuous financial market model, we study whether the additional information associated with an honest time gives rise to arbitrage profits. By relying on the theory of progressive enlargement of filtrations, we explicitly show that no kind of arbitrage profit can ever be realised strictly before an honest time, while classical arbitrage opportunities can be realised exactly at an honest time as well as after an honest time. Moreover, stronger arbitrages of the first kind can only be obtained by trading as soon as an honest time occurs. We carefully study the behavior of local martingale deflators and consider no-arbitrage-type conditions weaker than NFLVR.Comment: 25 pages, revised versio

On strong solutions for positive definite jump-diffusions

We show the existence of unique global strong solutions of a class of stochastic differential equations on the cone of symmetric positive definite matrices. Our result includes affine diffusion processes and therefore extends considerably the known statements concerning Wishart processes, which have recently been extensively employed in financial mathematics. Moreover, we consider stochastic differential equations where the diffusion coefficient is given by the alpha-th positive semidefinite power of the process itself with 0.5<alpha<1 and obtain existence conditions for them. In the case of a diffusion coefficient which is linear in the process we likewise get a positive definite analogue of the univariate GARCH diffusions.Comment: version to appear in Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, 201

Filtration shrinkage, strict local martingales and the F\"{o}llmer measure

When a strict local martingale is projected onto a subfiltration to which it is not adapted, the local martingale property may be lost, and the finite variation part of the projection may have singular paths. This phenomenon has consequences for arbitrage theory in mathematical finance. In this paper it is shown that the loss of the local martingale property is related to a measure extension problem for the associated F\"{o}llmer measure. When a solution exists, the finite variation part of the projection can be interpreted as the compensator, under the extended measure, of the explosion time of the original local martingale. In a topological setting, this leads to intuitive conditions under which its paths are singular. The measure extension problem is then solved in a Brownian framework, allowing an explicit treatment of several interesting examples.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AAP961 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org