ARBITRAGE WITH FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION?

CHRISTIAN BENDER, TOMMI SOTTINEN, AND ESKO VALKEILA

Theory of Stochastic Processes Vol.13 (29), no.1-2, 2007, pp.23-34

In recent years fractional Brownian motion has been suggested to replace the classical Brownian motion as driving process in the modelling of many real world phenomena, including stock price modelling. In several papers seemingly contradictory results on the existence or absence of a riskless gain (arbitrage) in such stock models have been stated. This survey tries to clarify this issue by pointing to the importance of the chosen class of admissible trading strategies.

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