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We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital … the dynamics of arbitrage activity are self-correcting: following a shock that depletes arbitrage capital, profitability … trades, although arbitrageurs cut their positions in these trades the least. When arbitrage capital is more mobile across …
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We show that direct investments by consumers without the use of financial intermediaries can efficiently allocate financial capital to firms seeking funding for production of a novel consumption good. In our setting, consumers are also investors, and their privately known consumption preferences...
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High frequency arbitrage opportunities sometimes arise when the price of one asset follows, with a lag, changes in the … suppliers to the risk of being picked off by arbitrageurs. Hence, more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster … triangular arbitrage opportunities in the FX market. In our sample, a 1% increase in the likelihood that a toxic arbitrage …
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This paper derives arbitrage trading strategies taking into account the fact that the actions of arbitrageurs impact … prices. This avoids the difficulty of having to rely on exogenous position limits to prevent infinite arbitrage profits. When … spite of arbitrage. Financial constraints are also responsible for periods of excessively volatile prices and for the time …
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This Paper solves explicitly a simple equilibrium asset pricing model with liquidity risk – the risk arising from …
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We study the effect of frequent trading opportunities and categorization on pricing of a risky asset. Frequent opportunities to trade can lead to large distortions in prices if some agents forecast future prices using a simplified model of the world that fails to distinguish between some states....
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On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers Inc. announced their filing for bankruptcy. The reaction of Lehman's competitors and market participants to this bankruptcy filing announcement provides a unique field experiment of how the insolvency spills over to other financial institutions and how...
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general equilibrium model with two production sectors, risk-averse households and financial intermediation by banks. Banks are …
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nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium model of asset pricing and risk sharing with endogenous collateral …
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. We compute the equilibrium in closed form when arbitrageurs' utility over consumption is logarithmic or risk-neutral with …
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