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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 211 4 b Solution by
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A numéraire strategy has zero consumption and strictly positive wealthat every date. Given an investment-consumption arbitrage , retain its holdings and invest each nonnegative consumption in the numéraire. Withthe self-financing identity for gives zero intermediate consumption for . At a deterministic after a date at which positive consumption occurs with positive probability, liquidating givesIt is strictly positive with positive probability. Hence is a terminal-consumption arbitrage.
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