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We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital … the dynamics of arbitrage activity are self-correcting: following a shock that depletes arbitrage capital, profitability … trades, although arbitrageurs cut their positions in these trades the least. When arbitrage capital is more mobile across …
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We show that direct investments by consumers without the use of financial intermediaries can efficiently allocate financial capital to firms seeking funding for production of a novel consumption good. In our setting, consumers are also investors, and their privately known consumption preferences...
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This paper derives arbitrage trading strategies taking into account the fact that the actions of arbitrageurs impact … prices. This avoids the difficulty of having to rely on exogenous position limits to prevent infinite arbitrage profits. When … spite of arbitrage. Financial constraints are also responsible for periods of excessively volatile prices and for the time …
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High frequency arbitrage opportunities sometimes arise when the price of one asset follows, with a lag, changes in the … suppliers to the risk of being picked off by arbitrageurs. Hence, more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster … triangular arbitrage opportunities in the FX market. In our sample, a 1% increase in the likelihood that a toxic arbitrage …
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This Paper solves explicitly a simple equilibrium asset pricing model with liquidity risk – the risk arising from …
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We explore the consequence for taxation and regulation of bonus pay when investors are protected by taxpayers from downside risk. The paper develops a model where workers in financial sector firms make decisions about effort and risk-taking which are influenced by the structure of bonus pay....
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We propose a model of delegated portfolio management with career concerns. Investors hire fund managers to invest their capital either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some managers have superior information on the default risk. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on...
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increase in the economy’s equilibrium interest rate, and; (ii) it enerates a negative wedge between the marginal return to … investment and the equilibrium interest rate. Under financial integration, we show how this translates into excessive capital …
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We study the effect of frequent trading opportunities and categorization on pricing of a risky asset. Frequent opportunities to trade can lead to large distortions in prices if some agents forecast future prices using a simplified model of the world that fails to distinguish between some states....
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On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers Inc. announced their filing for bankruptcy. The reaction of Lehman's competitors and market participants to this bankruptcy filing announcement provides a unique field experiment of how the insolvency spills over to other financial institutions and how...
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