Dávila, Eduardo; Graves, Daniel D.; Parlatore, Cecilia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …