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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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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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particular on arbitrage opportunities, I construct an “externality-mimicking portfolio” whose returns track the externalities …
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The price of crude oil in the U.S. never exceeded $40 per barrel until mid-2004. By 2006 it reached$70, and in July 2008 it peaked at $145. By late 2008 it had plummeted to about $30 before increasingto $110 in 2011. Are speculators at least partly to blame for these sharp price changes? We...
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We use a new micro data set that covers all oil fields in the world to estimate a stochastic industry-equilibrium model of the oil industry with two alternative market structures. In the first, all firms are competitive. In the second, OPEC firms act as a cartel. This effort is a first step...
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The heavy-tailed distribution of firm sizes first discovered by Zipf (1949) is one of the best established empirical facts in economics. We show that it has strong implications for asset pricing. Due to the concentration of the market portfolio when the distribution of the capitalization of...
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We derive the class of arbitrage-free affine dynamic term structure models that approximate the widely-used Nelson … three-factor arbitrage-free affine model. Our empirical analysis shows that imposing the Nelson-Siegel structure on this … performance are achieved from the imposition of absence of arbitrage …
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' result. Hence only a principal components analysis is needed to test the arbitrage pricing theory. Our eigenvalue conditional …We examine the implications of arbitrage in a market with many assets. The absence of arbitrage opportunities implies …
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We examine the implications of arbitrage in a market with many assets. The absence of arbitrage opportunities implies …
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not enforce arbitrage-free consistency over time. Indeed, we show that the factor loadings of the Svensson generalization … cannot be obtained in a standard finance arbitrage-free affine term structure representation. Therefore, we introduce a … closely related generalized Nelson-Siegel model on which the no-arbitrage condition can be imposed. We estimate this new …
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