Zhang, Ally Quan - 2017 - Last update: November 18, 2017, preliminary draft
arbitrage crashes and failure of systemically important intermediaries during the global financial crisis. Intermediaries pledge … productive capital as repo collateral to fund the margin for their arbitrage positions. A tiny drop in the market liquidity of … movements and losses. This further reduces the collateral value of arbitrage portfolios and triggers more fire-sales in both …