The market for the leading German equity index DAX comprises electronically traded futures contracts, fully replicated and swap-based exchange traded funds (ETFs), and certificates. This paper reveals that DAX futures contracts contribute an economically and statistically significant proportion...

Analysing 5 exchange traded funds (ETFs) and 26 index certificates, this is a comprehensive intraday study combining the perspective of information dissemination and pricing quality. We focus on the Volkswagen extreme event day on 28 October 2008, where a breakdown of the futures-cash arbitrage...