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This paper offers a multisecurity model in which prices reflect both covariance risk and misperceptions of firms' prospects, and in which arbitrageurs trade to profit from mispricing. We derive a pricing relationship in which expected returns are linearly related to both risk and mispricing...
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We develop a theory of stock-market crashes based on differences of opinion among investors. Because of short-sales constraints, bearish investors do not initially participate in the market and their information is not revealed in prices. However, if other, previously-bullish investors have a...
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We test a Wall Street investment strategy known as pairs trading' with daily data over the period 1962 through 1997. Stocks are matched into pairs according to minimum distance in historical normalized price space. We test the profitability of several trading rules with six-month trading periods...
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This paper studies the social value of closing price differentials in financial markets. We show that arbitrage gaps … (price differentials between markets) exactly correspond to the marginal social value of executing an arbitrage trade. We … further show that arbitrage gaps and measures of price impact are sufficient to compute the total social value from closing an …
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-financial-crisis regulatory environment. Global banks mainly use such funding to finance liquid, near risk-free arbitrage positions--in particular …, the interest on excess reserves arbitrage and the covered interest rate parity arbitrage. In this environment, we examine … global banks to the reform was a cutback in arbitrage positions that relied on unsecured funding, rather than a reduction in …
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We develop a two-country model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles, and segmentation is partly overcome by global arbitrageurs with limited capital. Our model accounts for the empirically documented violations of Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP) and...
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With the high-frequency data of firm quotes in the transaction platform of foreign exchanges, arbitrage profit … pairs--can be detected to emerge and disappear in the matter of seconds. The frequency and duration of such arbitrage … arbitrage opportunity and places orders for multiple transactions--two in negative spreads and three in triangular arbitrage …
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rates with the same maturity. Under standard assumptions this implies the existence of arbitrage opportunities. This paper … presents a model for pricing interest rate swaps where frictions for holding bonds limit arbitrage. I show analytically that …
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The price-amenity arbitrage is a cornerstone of spatial economics, as the response of land and house prices to shifts … amenities. With informational, time, and cash constraints, households' ability to arbitrage across locations with different …
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If experimental subjects arbitrage against market interest rates when making intertemporal allocations of cash, the … arbitrage directly by forcing all transactions with subjects to be instant electronic bank transfers, thus making arbitrage easy … and salient. We also employ four decision frames to test alternative hypotheses. Our evidence contradicts arbitrage …
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