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Michael I. Taksar

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Growth-optimal investments and numeraire portfolios under transaction costs: An analysis based on the von Neumann-Gale model

The aim of this work is to extend the capital growth theory developed by Kelly, Breiman, Cover and others to asset market models with transaction costs. We define a natural generalization of the notion of a numeraire portfolio proposed by Long and show how such portfolios can be used for constructing growth-optimal investment strategies. The analysis is based on the classical von Neumann-Gale model of economic dynamics, a stochastic version of which we use as a framework for the modelling of financial markets with frictions.

q-fin.PM

Rapid paths in von Neumann-Gale dynamical systems

The paper examines random dynamical systems related to the classical von Neumann and Gale models of economic growth. Such systems are defined in terms of multivalued operators in spaces of random vectors, possessing certain properties of convexity and homogeneity. A central role in the theory of von Neumann-Gale dynamics is played by a special class of paths called rapid (they maximize properly defined growth rates). Up to now the theory lacked quite satisfactory results on the existence of such paths. This work provides a general existence theorem holding under assumptions analogous to the standard deterministic ones. The result solves a problem that remained open for more than three decades.

math.PR