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Bick (1987,1990) and He and Leland (1993) demonstrated that not every arbitrage-free Markovian diffusion price process is consistent with an equilibrium approach. We propose a unified framework for these results and we derive a new martingale characterization of equilibrium.
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Received: November 4, 1997; revised version: June 10, 1998
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Décamps, J., Lazrak, A. A martingale characterization of equilibrium asset price processes. Econ Theory 15, 207–213 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050007
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