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This paper offers a financial economic perspective on the optimal time (and age) at which the owner of a Variable Annuity (VA) policy with a Guaranteed Living Withdrawal Benefit (GLWB) rider should initiate guaranteed lifetime income payments. We abstract from utility, bequest and consumption...
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of arbitrage opportunities from this market while maintaining the market's diversity …
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funds. Seemingly long-term debt capital became short-term capital creating a large mismatch in the duration of arbitrage …
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This paper studies the general equilibrium implications of arbitrage trades in segmented financial markets …
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Empirical modeling of the yield curve is often inconsistent with absence of arbitrage. In fact, many parsimonious … models, like the popular Nelson-Siegel model, are inconsistent with absence of arbitrage. In other cases, arbitrage … introduces an arbitrage smoothing device to control arbitrage errors that arise in fitting a sequence of yield curves. The device …
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The no arbitrage conditions are derived in the explicit form for the market, where the zero coupons bonds of various … assets is extended on case of any number of assets and inflation. The no arbitrage condition for multi-factor models of a … obtained at first, and then for want of it fulfillment the no arbitrage condition is derived …
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If there were no impediments to the flow of capital across space, then the returns to capital should be equalized. We provide evidence to the contrary. There are large differences in the return to comparable investments across different towns in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India. We explore...
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significantly reduce the potential arbitrage profits. Positive shocks to market-wide liquidity reduce arbitrage costs and accelerate …
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When a corporation is making financing decisions, accounting/regulatory arbitrage and tax arbitrage are important … through an operating lease. In this paper, the transaction is analysed as a case study to illustrate that tax arbitrage and … accounting regulatory arbitrage are not separate considerations in the financing decision-making process. Therefore, regulators …
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We examine the behavior of call options surrounding the underlying stock's ex-dividend date. The evidence is inconsistent with the predictions of a rational exercise policy; a significant fraction of the open interest remains unexercised, resulting in a windfall gain to option writers. This...
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