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Market Efficiency, Risk Neutral Pricing and Choice Among Representations: a "mini-model"

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The so-called “risk-neutral probability” is a technical tool that has received considerable attention in financial practices over the past thirty years, to the point that risk-neutral pricing techniques are now a routine part of the day-to-day business in the finance industry. I present an simplified “mini-model” of risk-neutral pricing to allow the black box to be opened to philosophical investigation by displaying without any mathematics the fair value pricing mechanism in a complete arbitraged free market. I argue that the difficulties of the puzzling methods used to value financial assets using risk-neutral valuation techniques are more conceptual than mathematical, and discuss the epistemological issues enlightened by this mini-model, particularly in terms of narratives. The mini-model reveals how the Efficient Markets Hypothesis (EMH) is a narrative imposed on the real finance, and how the EMH narratives correspond to each other as quantification conventions which draws a “representation format” of EMH. It raises the ethical question of choosing a narrative for financial purposes, particularly when ethical, climatic and environmental issues are at stake.
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hal-04578320 , version 1 (16-05-2024)

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Christian Walter. Market Efficiency, Risk Neutral Pricing and Choice Among Representations: a "mini-model". 2024. ⟨hal-04578320⟩
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