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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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A major question in the literature on the classical gold standard concerns the efficiency of international arbitrage … and interest arbitrage. These studies have suffered from many limitations, both methodological and empirical. We offer a … new methodology for measuring market integration, based on a theoretical model of arbitrage applicable to any type of …
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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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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 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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that (1) strong arbitrage leads to an elastic Treasury market and a steeply downward-sloping term structure of market …
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, even though it appears that the open-end form can be a serious impediment to arbitrage. I argue that the equilibrium degree …-suited to undertaking certain types of arbitrage trades. One implication of the analysis is that, even absent short …
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We examine some basic data on the evolution of aggregate short interest, both during the dot-com era, and at other times in history. Total short interest moves in a countercyclical fashion. For example, short interest in NASDAQ stocks actually declines as the NASDAQ index approaches its peak....
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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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