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The notion of No Free Lunch with Vanishing Risk (or NFLVR in short) w.r.t. admissible strategies depends on the choice of numeraire. Yan introduced the notion of allowable strategy and showed that condition of NFLVR w.r.t. allowable strategies is independent of the choice of numeraire and is equivalent to the existence of an equivalent martingale measure for the deflated price process. In this paper we establish a version of the Kramkov’s optional decomposition theorem in the setting of equivalent martingale measures. Based on this theorem, we have a new look at some basic concepts in arbitrage pricing theory: superhedging, fair price, attainable contingent claims, complete markets and etc.
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The main results of this paper were reported in ref. [6] without giving the proofs.
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Xia, J., Yan, J. A new look at some basic concepts in arbitrage pricing theory. Sci. China Ser. A-Math. 46, 764–774 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1360/02ys0072
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