This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of asset-backed securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that banks operating with tight regulatory constraints exploit the low risk-sensitivity of rating-contingent capital requirements...

A natural liquidity mismatch emerges when liquid exchange traded funds (ETFs) hold relatively illiquid assets. We provide a theory and empirical evidence showing that this liquidity mismatch can reduce market efficiency and increase the fragility of these ETFs. We focus on corporate bond ETFs...

During times of market stress, arbitrage capital cannot be timely deployed, and assets trade away from fundamentals. This gives rise to transitory price volatility, a latent factor that signals difficulties in the market-making process. I propose a market-wide illiquidity measure based on SPY's...

The presence of purchasing power parity is often attributed to the exploitation of arbitrage opportunities in goods markets. We examine this presumption for a 1960-1996 monthly panel of bilateral exchange rates and trade for the G7 countries. The data exhibit strong mean reversion. However,...

We exploit detailed transaction and position data for a sample of long-short equity hedge funds to study the trading activity of fundamental investors. We find that hedge funds exhibit skill in opening positions, but that they close their positions too early, thereby forgoing about a third of...

Concepts are introduced for analyzing arbitrage portfolios in the face of ambiguity about investor risk preferences and initial portfolio holdings. A Stochastic Arbitrage Opportunity is a self-financing overlay portfolio which enhances every feasible host portfolio for all relevant utility...

Classical wealth management heavily relies on the linear and two-dimensional world of Modern Portfolio Theory. While this has generally worked for investors, many new investment offerings only inadequately map into the CW world. This inadequacy is a source of potentially large investor losses,...

We develop two models for index futures arbitrage that take the financing constraints faced by real-world arbitrageurs into account. Our models predict that the price of an index futures contract and the value of its underlying index should deviate further from their theoretical cost-of-carry...

The European Union's push towards market-based procurement of redispatch services has sparked fears of so called Inc-Dec-Gaming, i.e. the incentive to engage in arbitrage between the national wholesale market and the local redispatch market. The latter would increase both likelihood and severity...

We document frequent occurrences of negative conversion premium (NCP) events in the Chinese convertible bond market, when the bond is convertible and the underlying stock can be freely sold. This implies that when an NCP event occurs, existing stock holders can earn a riskless profit through a...