Digital assets, bubbles, and derivative prices
摘要
In a standard no-arbitrage continuous-time model, this paper characterizes a digital asset’s price process as being decomposed into four components: its fundamental value and three different types of bubbles, labeled type 1, 2 and 3. Type 1 bubbles are permanent, type 2 are long-horizon, and type 3 are short-horizon. Only type 3 (short-horizon) bubbles are not martingales under an equivalent local martingale measure. This decomposition implies the standard derivative pricing methodology does not apply to digital assets whose market prices reflect type 3 (short-horizon) bubbles. Modifications to the existing derivative pricing theory needed for digital assets with price bubbles are explored herein.