For any positive diffusion with minimal regularity, there exists a semimartingale, with uniformly close paths, which is a martingale under an equivalent probability. As a result, in models of asset prices based on such diffusions, arbitrage and bubbles alike disappear under proportional...

In a continuous-time model with multiple assets described by cadlag processes, this paper characterizes superhedging prices, absence of arbitrage, and utility maximizing strategies, under general frictions that make execution prices arbitrarily unfavorable for high trading intensity. With such...

Time-varying asset returns lead highly risk-averse investors to choose market-timing exposures that increase in their horizon, in agreement with the common advice to reduce risk with age, but in contrast to theoretical work that prescribes constant portfolio weights. In a market where an...

This paper proves the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing with transaction costs, when bid and ask prices follow locally bounded cadlag (right-continuous, left-limited) processes. The Robust No Free Lunch with Vanishing Risk (RNFLVR) condition for simple strategies is equivalent to the...