Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs … effect). In equilibrium, the presence of arbitrageurs increases volatility when the inference effect dominates the arbitrage …

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … normal levels. We investigate how the risks in convergence trading can affect price volatility in a form of positive feedback … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …

-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and order flow in the stock and bond markets. We find that a shock to quoted spreads … in one market affects the spreads in both markets, and that return volatility is an important driver of liquidity …. Innovations to stock and bond market liquidity and volatility prove to be significantly correlated, suggesting that common factors …

-market volatility as measured by the VIX. We propose a new estimator for the shape of the nonlinear forecasting relationship that …, revealing flight to safety: Expected returns increase for stocks when volatility increases from moderate to high levels, while …

This paper describes a method for computing risk-neutral density functions based on the option-implied volatility smile …. Its aim is to reduce complexity and provide cookbook-style guidance through the estimation process. The technique is …