Discounted dividend gains
ID: discounted-dividend-gains
If is a positive riskless numéraire of finite variation, the ex-dividend price vector and its cash-dividend rate, a self-financing portfolio with risky holdings satisfies . This follows by differentiating , substituting and using . If is a martingale under an equivalent measure, discounted wealth is a local martingale. A deterministic lower bound on discounted wealth makes it a supermartingale, ruling out arbitrage. The cumulative dividends here are discounted at their own payment times.
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