Asymptotic Exponential Arbitrage and Utility-Based Asymptotic Arbitrage in Markovian Models of Financial Markets

Consider a discrete-time infinite horizon financial market model in which the logarithm of the stock price is a time discretization of a stochastic differential equation. Under conditions different from those given in (Mbele Bidima and Rásonyi in Ann. Oper. Res. 200:131–146, 2012), we prove the existence of investment opportunities producing an exponentially growing profit with probability tending to 1 geometrically fast. This is achieved using ergodic results on Markov chains and tools of large deviations theory.