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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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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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"Limits of Arbitrage" theories hypothesize that the marginal investor in a particular asset market is a specialized …
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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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In traditional models, arbitrage in a given security is performed by a large number of diversified investors taking … small positions against its mispricing. In reality, however, arbitrage is conducted by a relatively small number of highly … specialized investors who take large positions using other people's money. Such professional arbitrage has a number of interesting …
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that CIP violations imply arbitrage opportunities only if uncollateralized interbank lending rates are riskless. In the … absence of observable riskless discount rates, we extract them empirically using a simple no-arbitrage framework. They deliver …-currency basis swap rates well. The no-arbitrage benchmarks account for about two thirds of the alleged CIP deviations, while the …
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This paper develops a model for the pricing of credit derivatives using observables. The model (i) is arbitrage …
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analysis of large cross-sections of securities. Our empirical implementation of the theory proved in capable of explaining … with the CAPM employing the usual market proxies failed. In addition, it appears that the zero beta version of the APT is … factor versions of the theory …
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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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