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Capital structure arbitrage revisited
Wojtowicz, Marcin - 2014
We study risk and return properties of capital structure arbitrage strategies aiming to profit from temporal mispricing … between equity and credit default swaps (CDSs) of companies. We find that capital structure arbitrage provides an attractive … annualized return of 24.35% on invested capital. The arbitrage returns are higher for lower rated companies and surprisingly they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415520
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Black scholes for portfolios of options in discrete time : the price is right, the hedge is wrong
Peeters, Bas; Dert, Cees; Lucas, André - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001884326
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SETS, arbitrage activity, and stock price dynamics
Taylor, Nicholas; Dijk, Dick van; Franses, Philip Hans; … - 1999
This paper provides an empirical description of the relationshipbetween the trading system operated by a stockexchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the exchange. Therecent introduction ofSETS in the London Stock Exchange provides an excellent opportunity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300557
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Why did warrant markets close in China but not Taiwan?
Wong, Wing Keung; Hooi Hooi Lean; McAleer, Michael; … - 2018
analysis, though there is no arbitrage opportunity between the China and Taiwan warrant markets, it is shown that the markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869273
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Splitting orders in fragmented markets
Menkveld, Albert J. - 2001
A number of recent theoretical studies have explored trading in fragmented markets, e.g. Biais etal. (2000), a phenomenon increasingly witnessed in modern markets. The key assumptiongenerating the results is that there is at least one liquidity demander exploiting access to allmarkets by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317469
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High-frequency trading around large institutional orders
Kervel, Vincent van; Menkveld, Albert J. - 2017
Liquidity suppliers lean against the wind. We analyze whether high-frequency traders (HFTs) lean against large institutional orders that execute through a series of child orders. The alternative is HFTs trading "with the wind," that is, in the same direction. We find that HFTs initially lean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725287
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Black scholes for portfolios of options in discrete time : the price is right, the hedge is wrong
Peeters, Bas; Dert, Cees; Lucas, André - 2003
Taking a portfolio perspective on option pricing and hedging, we show that within the standard Black-Scholes-Merton framework large portfolios of options can be hedged without risk in discrete time. The nature of the hedge portfolio in the limit of large portfolio size is substantially different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334345
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Spot variance path estimation and its application to high frequency jump testing
Bos, Charles S.; Janus, Paweł; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2009
This paper considers spot variance path estimation from datasets of intraday high frequency asset prices in the presence of diurnal variance patterns, jumps, leverage effects and microstructure noise. We rely on parametric and nonparametric methods. The estimated spot variance path can be used...
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Identifying cross-sided liquidity externalities
Skjeltorp, Johannes A.; Sojli, Elvira; Tham, Wing Wah - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191208
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The determinants of CDS bid-ask spreads
Wojtowicz, Marcin - 2014
We investigate the determinants of bid-ask spreads on corporate credit default swaps (CDSs). We find that proxies for dealer inventory costs such as variability of CDS premia and CDS trading volume explain as much as 80% of variation in CDS bid-ask spreads. We also analyze the influence of...
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