Ibáñez, Daniel Beunza; Stark, David - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
conduct an ethnography of arbitrage, the trading strategy that best exemplifies finance in the wake of the quantitative … revolution. In contrast to value and momentum investing, we argue, arbitrage involves an art of association - the construction of … peculiar valuation that takes place in arbitrage is based on an operation that makes something the measure of something else …