In this paper we study the existence of arbitrage opportunities in a multi-asset market when risk-neutral marginal distributions of asset prices are known. We first propose an intuitive characterization of the absence of arbitrage opportunities in terms of copula functions. We then address the...

This paper studies the unique rolling activity of commodity index in futures markets and shows that the resulting price impact is statistically and economically significant. Two trading strategies, devised to exploit this anomaly, yielded excess returns with positive skewness and Sharpe ratios...

This paper tests the idea that arbitrageurs use public announcements as a synchronizing signal. I find that firms publicly identified by hedge fund managers as being overvalued underperform their respective benchmarks by 324 to 376 basis points per month, during the 24 months subsequent to the...

This paper examines the pricing of macroeconomic factors in the Mexican stock market. Using a larger sample of 180 stocks traded on the Mexican Stock Exchange for a longer period December 1991 to June 2010, we construct portfolios à la Fama and French and test the APT model. Making use of a...