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fulfils a minimal no-arbitrage condition for an economically viable financial market. Furthermore, we demonstrate that … illustrating and clarifying several points on asset price bubbles and the economics of arbitrage. …
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This paper shows how to uniquely price non-traded assets using no-arbitrage in an otherwise friction-less market …
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paper explains that pricing by classical no-arbitrage arguments is, in general, not unique and may lead to overpricing. In …
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to be locally arbitrage free, however, it still permits some form of arbitrage. Finally, a subclass of arbitrage free … portfolio ; arbitrage amount …
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, informed investors, and noise traders. Arbitrageurs face a trade-off between arbitrage and inference: they would like to buy … assets in response to temporary price declines (the arbitrage effect) but sell when prices decline permanently (the inference … effect). In equilibrium, the presence of arbitrageurs increases volatility when the inference effect dominates the arbitrage …
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In this paper, we combine modern portfolio theory and option pricing theory so that a trader who takes a position in a European option contract and the underlying assets can construct an optimal portfolio such that at the moment of the contract's maturity the contract is perfectly hedged. We...
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Fluctuations in the aggregate balance sheets of financial intermediaries provide a window on the joint determination of asset prices and macroeconomic aggregates. We document that financial intermediary balance sheets contain strong predictive power for future excess returns on a broad set of...
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We propose regression-based estimators for beta representations of dynamic asset pricing models with an affine pricing kernel specification. We allow for state variables that are cross-sectional pricing factors, forecasting variables for the price of risk, and factors that are both. The...
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We investigate intermediary asset pricing theories empirically and find strong support for models that have intermediary leverage as the relevant state variable. A parsimonious model that uses detrended dealer leverage as a price-of-risk variable, and innovations to dealer leverage as a pricing...
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