Are bank resolution regimes effective enough to improve financial stability? We look at the effect of the new bank resolution reforms on the systemic risk of big financial conglomerates. We find that in developed countries, parents in a stricter resolution regime have lower systemic risk...

We establish the equivalence between a principle of almost absence of arbitrage opportunities and nearly rational decision-making. The implications of such principle are considered in the context of the aggregation of probabilistic opinions and of stochastic choice functions. In the former a...

Focusing on capital asset returns governed by a factor structure, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) is a one-period model, in which preclusion of arbitrage over static portfolios of these assets leads to a linear relation between the expected return and its covariance with the factors. The APT,...

This paper examines how Chinese banks used on-balance sheet shadow loans for regulatory arbitrage and whether the financial market priced in the banks’ use of shadow loans and the resulting vulnerabilities in 2016–2020. It finds that banks chose to window dress their regulatory capital ratio...

The prices of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can deviate significantly from their net asset values (NAVs). Exploiting such inefficiencies is often too costly because it involves taking positions in hundreds of underlying illiquid securities. We develop a method that identifies a liquid mimicking...

We argue that contemporary stock market designs are, due to traders' inability to fully express their preferences over the execution times of their orders, prone to latency arbitrage. In turn, we propose a new order type which allows traders to specify the time at which their orders are executed...

We investigate the relationship between latency arbitrage and trading via frequent batch auctions (FBA). We show that increases in single and cross-market latency arbitrage opportunities (LAOs) are linked to an economically meaningful increase in FBA activity, which implies that slower traders...

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are often considered long-term and less sensitive to global shocks as they involve large amounts of capital investment that are costly to reverse. This study examines whether a pandemic arbitrage through “distance” in COVID-19 infection rates impacts FDI....

In the past years, there has been an extensive investigation of the class of stochastic volatility models for the evaluation of options and complex derivatives. These models have proven to be extremely useful in generalizing the classic Black-Scholes economy and accounting for discrepancies...