This paper analytically solves the portfolio optimization problem of an investor faced with a risky arbitrage opportunity (e.g. relative mispricing in equity pairs). Unlike the extant literature, which typically models mispricings through the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process, we introduce a...

We show that exploitable lead-lag relations of the order of a few hundred milliseconds exist in the three pairings between the S&P 500, FTSE 100, and DAX futures contracts. These relations exhibit clear intra-daily patterns, particularly around the US open, the European close, and the...

This is the first paper to consider pairs trading as a mechanism by which the Law of One Price is enforced between stocks and American Depository Receipts (ADRs). Using intraday contemporaneous data spanning 2007-2009, pairs trading between UK stocks and ADRs yields 5% annually net of costs,...

Ours is the first paper to highlight pairs trading as the main price-correcting mechanism by which arbitrage can maintain stock–ADR parity. We show that arbitraging stock–ADR pairs extracts small per-trade profits which accumulate to a substantial aggregate return. The observed strong...