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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 …
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exists, arbitrage opportunities must also exist. Conversely, at times when arbitrage profits exist, asset markets are … susceptible to self-fulfilling fluctuations. The tight theoretical connection between price volatility and arbitrage is detectable …
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. 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 …
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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 twenty-nine arbitrage spreads that we study is 22 … sets all prices. We show that at least two types of segmentation drive arbitrage dynamics. First, funding is segmented …
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In a discrete-time setting, we study arbitrage concepts in the presence of convex trading constraints. We show that … solvability of portfolio optimization problems is equivalent to absence of arbitrage of the first kind, a condition weaker than … classical absence of arbitrage opportunities. We center our analysis on this characterization of market viability and derive …
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. This research assess if it is possible successfully use interest rates sensitivity arbitrage in bond portfolio (also known … as convexity arbitrage) in financial praxis. This arbitrage is sparsely described in literature and an assessment about … its practical success is missing. Research methodology - Methodology steps: mathematical definition of given arbitrage …
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-lived correlated assets we examine the impact of alternative types of arbitrage-seeking algorithms. These arbitrage robot traders vary … in their latency and whether they make or take market liquidity. All arbitrage robot traders we examine generate greater … conformity to the law-of-one-price across the twin markets. However, only the liquidity providing arbitrage robot trader moves …
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This paper aims to develop a credit-risk model in which firms face rollover risk, and the markets for defaulted assets are segmented due to entry costs. The paper shows that reducing the entry costs in this economy may decrease the total surplus of the economy. This outcome can arise because...
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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity...
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