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-quote changes in lagging contracts with a directional accuracy in excess of 85%. A simple statistical arbitrage strategy exploiting … arbitrage in this market setting. Overall, our results accord with the view that informational inefficiencies incentivize …
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UK stocks and ADRs yields 5% annually net of costs, taxes, and systematic risk. Unlike arbitrage in other settings, stock …-ADR pairs traders face minimal uncertainty toward price convergence, yielding stable returns. Hence, ADR arbitrage is …
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Arbitrage and liquidity are interrelated. Liquidity facilitates arbitrageurs’ trading on deviations from the law of one … price. However, whether arbitrage opportunity leads to an increase or decrease in liquidity depends on the cause of the … arbitrage and liquidity influence each other in the world’s largest platinum futures markets on exchanges in New York and Tokyo …
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and fundamentals. Speculation ; Limited Arbitrage ; Hedging ; Exchange Rate Disconnect …
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We develop a genetic algorithm that is able to find the optimal sequence of exchange rates that maximizes arbitrage … profits with more than three currencies, being both the triangular arbitrage and the direct exchange rate two special cases of … the period October 2000-April 2012. Our results also suggest that the arbitrage profits increased just after the subprime …
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. This is especially true for the profits from riskless arbitrage. Yet, there is conflicting evidence in the financial … economic literature over whether high frequency trading (HFT) profits, in general, (Baron et al [2012]) and arbitrage profits … firms in being faster if arbitrage profit opportunities persist (in the absence of limits to arbitrage). There are several …
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We document frequent occurrences of negative conversion premium (NCP) events in the Chinese convertible bond market, when the bond is convertible and the underlying stock can be freely sold. This implies that when an NCP event occurs, existing stock holders can earn a riskless profit through a...
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This paper documents how currency speculators trade when international capital flows generate predictable exchange rate movements. The redefinition of the MSCI world equity index in December 2000 provides an ideal natural experiment identifying exogenous capital flows of index tracking equity...
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interest after issuance as a proxy for convertible bond arbitrage activity, the results suggest that there is limited positive …
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We exploit detailed transaction and position data for a sample of long-short equity hedge funds to document new facts about the trading activity of sophisticated investors. We find that the initiation of both long and short positions is associated with significant abnormal returns, suggesting...
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