Change of numeraire

ID: change-of-numeraire

If are strictly positive traded numeraires and is a mean-one martingale after normalizing its initial value under , this ratio defines . Conditional change of measure then makes every -martingale asset price into the corresponding -martingale , when the required integrability holds. In particular a martingale exchange rate under one currency's bank-account measure has a reciprocal martingale under the other currency's measure when their interest rates coincide.

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