We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital …, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that …

. We show that the dynamics of arbitrage capital are self-correcting: following a shock that depletes capital, returns … respect to arbitrage capital. Diversification of arbitrageurs across markets induces contagion, but generally lowers …

We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital …, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that …

productive capital as repo collateral to fund the margin for their arbitrage positions. A tiny drop in the market liquidity of …), and can easily incur a simultaneous repo run and arbitrage crashes, where liquidity in several markets dry up altogether …We investigate the channel through which fluctuations in the market liquidity of real-sector repo collateral cause …

Slow-moving capital cannot fully explain the 2005 and 2008 arbitrage crashes in theconvertible bond market. Faced with …