Motivated by the industry practice of pairs trading, we study the optimal timing strategies for trading a mean-reverting price spread. An optimal double stopping problem is formulated to analyze the timing to start and subsequently liquidate the position subject to transaction costs. Modeling...

The impact of transaction costs on asset pricing in equilibrium is rarely studied. We study an equilibrium model with proportional transaction costs where two investors trade in a derivative to hedge non-traded endowments. For any positive transaction cost there always exist no trade equilibria....

In the US market, two popular exchange fee structures are “maker-taker” and “inverted” (also known as “taker-maker”). Maker-taker exchanges charge fees for taking liquidity and give rebates for providing liquidity, while inverted exchanges give rebates for taking liquidity and charge...

Failing to account for transaction costs materially impacts inferences drawn when evaluating asset pricing models, biasing tests in favor of those employing high cost factors. Ignoring transaction costs, the Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) q-factor model and the Barillas and Shanken (2018) six-factor...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the impact of transaction costs in portfolio optimization in Peru. The study aims to compare the transaction costs structure applied in Peru with respect to the ones applied in the USA, and over a few dimensions. Design/methodology/approach The paper opted for...

In a market with one safe and one risky asset, an investor with a long horizon, constant investment opportunities, and constant relative risk aversion trades with small proportional transaction costs. We derive explicit formulas for the optimal investment policy, its implied welfare, liquidity...

A number of papers have solved for the optimal dynamic portfolio strategy when expected returns are time-varying and trading is costly, but only for agents with myopic utility. Non-myopic agents benefit from hedging against shocks to the investment opportunity set even when transaction costs are...

This paper presents an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio selection problem, considering transaction costs and signals with different persistence properties. Our proposed optimal portfolio policy involves a smooth adjustment towards a forward-looking portfolio that is composed of a...

When returns are partially predictable and trading is costly, CARA investors track a target portfolio at a constant trading speed. The target portfolio is optimal for a frictionless market, where asset returns are scaled back to account for trading costs and volatilities are adjusted to proxy...