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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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A major question in the literature on the classical gold standard concerns the efficiency of international arbitrage … tests of various asset market criteria, including speculative efficiency and interest arbitrage. These studies have suffered …
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for foreign exchanges) data, it is found that risk-free arbitrage opportunities--free lunch--do occur in the foreign … pair and (b) triangular arbitrage relationship involving three currency pairs. The latter occur much more often than the … former. Such arbitrage opportunities tend to occur when the markets are active and volatile. Over the 12-year, tick …
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This paper explores the role of restrictions on the use of international reserves as economic sanctions. We develop a simple model of the strategic game between a sanctioning (creditor) country and a sanctioned (debtor) country. We show how the sanctioning country should impose restrictions...
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The opening up of an economy to the rest of the world has generally been considered an integral part of economic reform aimed at increasing the role of markets. Until recently, however, very little discussion was devoted to the order in which the capital and current account should be liberalized...
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This paper extends a New Keynesian model to include roles for currency and deposits as competing sources of liquidity services demanded by households. It shows that, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the Barnett critique applies: While a Divisia aggregate of monetary services tracks the...
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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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