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In this paper we study the intraday price formation process of country Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). We identify specific parts of the US trading day during which Net Asset Values (NAVs), currency rates, premiums and discounts, and the S&P 500 index have special effects on ETF prices, and...
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We explore latency arbitrage activities with a new arbitrage strategy that we test with high-frequency data during the … first six months of 2019. We study the profitability of mean-reverting arbitrage activities of 74 cross-listed stocks … involving three exchanges in Canada and the United States. Our arbitrage strategy is a hybrid between triangular arbitrage and …
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Feedback trading strategies have gained much popularity among researchers in the last decadesand are used to illustrate how new information based on returns is reflected in the markets. This paper extends previous studies by decomposing the overall return premium and introducing the global...
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The first Exchange Traded Note (ETN) was introduced in 2006. Since then, at least 64 other ETNs have been issued, with more announced. This financial security, which is growing in number and popularity, is often confused with Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and seems to be largely misunderstood by...
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We exploit detailed transaction and position data for a sample of long-short equity hedge funds to document new facts about the trading activity of sophisticated investors. We find that the initiation of both long and short positions is associated with significant abnormal returns, suggesting...
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limits of arbitrage: hedge funds close positions early in order to reallocate their capital to more profitable investments …
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This paper investigates how institutional investors matter for asset pricing by using daily institutional trading data and a natural experiment, the split–share structure reform in China. This reform required all listed companies to convert their non-tradable shares to tradable shares after...
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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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Short selling exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has become a common means of speculating or hedging in response to pessimistic expectations about a specific market or sector, as the short interest of ETFs is more than 10 times that of individual stocks, on average. We determine that sector-based ETFs...
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This paper presents (sufficient) conditions for the domestic investor/consumer to hold in equilibrium a disproportionate share of domestic assets. The analysis is carried out in a general equilibrium framework of products and assets markets, when the source of the uncertainty is productivity...
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