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We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences for specific maturities trade with arbitrageurs. Consistent with the model,...
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We show that a significant number of households can perform a tax arbitrage by cutting back on their additional … arbitrage …
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We investigate the extent to which tests of financial asset pricing models may be biased by using properties of the data to construct the test statistics. Specifically, we focus on tests using returns to portfolios of common stock where portfolios are constructed by sorting on some empirically...
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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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In this paper, we investigate empirically the well-known put-call parity no-arbitrage relation in the presence of short …
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across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different … no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction that individuals must be indifferent between owning and renting. This … paper argues the predictions from these non-spatial, financial no arbitrage conditions are also quite imprecise. Owned homes …
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-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to "sell …
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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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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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arbitrage opportunity because they can defer Social Security and have higher income in all future years. Arbitrage exists for …
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