Siriwardane, Emil N.; Sunderam, Adi; Wallen, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and … constraints facing intermediaries. The average pairwise correlation between the 29 arbitrage spreads that we study is 21%. These … segmentation drive arbitrage dynamics. First, funding is segmented--certain trades rely on specific funding sources, making their …