Advanced Modeling and Optimization

Abstract for Paper 3 of Volume 5, Number 3, 2003, pp. 175-195


Arbitrage and Equilibrium in Asset Exchange
Economies: A Survey

Hongbin Dong,
Guangya Chen,
Shouyang Wang

Institute of Systems Science,
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100080, China

 



Abstract
This article surveys some recent progress on arbitrage and equilibrium in asset exchange economies. Using the basic geometry of arbitrage, the relationships between various no-arbitrage conditions appeared in the literature are presented. The relationships between some of the basic no-arbitrage conditions together with the existence result of an equilibrium in Dana et al. [16] provide an overview of sufficient conditions for equilibrium. Under certain conditions the various no-arbitrage conditions in the literature are equivalent and necessary and sufficient for the existence of an equilibrium.

Keywords: Arbitrage; Equilibrium; Compactness; Cones; Uniformity.