In this paper, we introduce a numeraire-free and original probability based framework for financial markets. We reformulate or characterize fair markets, the optional decomposition theorem, superhedging, attainable claims and complete markets in terms of martingale deflators, present a recent...

The expressions of solutions for general nxm matrix-valued inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equations are derived. This generalizes a result of Jaschke [Jaschke, S., 2003. A note on the inhomogeneous linear stochastic differential equation. Insurance: Mathematics and Finance 32,...

This paper proposes some new classes of risk measures, which are not only comonotonic subadditive or convex, but also respect the (first) stochastic dominance or stop-loss order. We give their representations in terms of Choquet integrals w.r.t. distorted probabilities, and show that if the...

In this paper we study the expected utility maximization problem for discretetime incomplete financial markets. As shown by Xia and Yan (2000a, 2000b) in the continuous-time case, this problem can be solved by the martingale measure method. In a special discrete-time model, we explicitly work...

By using a calculus based on Brownian bridge measures, it is shown that under mild assumptions on V (e.g. V is in the Kato class) the fundamental solution (FS) q (t,x,y) for the heat equation can be represented by the Feynman-Kac formula. Furthermore, it has an analytic continuation in t over +,...

It is shown that in a market modeled by a vector-valued semimartingale, when we choose the wealth process of an admissible self-financing strategy as a numeraire such that the historical probability measure becomes a martingale measure, then this numeraire must be the wealth process of a growth...