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The paper studies the role of risk arbitrage in takeover contests. We show that arbitrageurs have an incentive to …
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I present a simple model in which it is possible that opening a new market makes everybody worse off. Unlike previous examples in the literature, the analysis does not rely on relative price changes of different consumption goods. This is shown in a standard framework in which uninformed traders...
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We use retail transaction prices for a multinational retailer to examine the extent and permanence of violations of the law of one price (LOOP) for identical products sold in a variety of countries. We find median deviations of twenty to fifty percent. The differences are not systematic across...
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making investments today and waiting for arbitrage opportunities in future is the combination of occasional fire sales and … fire sales in other types that are fundamentally unrelated, provided arbitrage activity in these investments is sourced …
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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 article analyzes the stability of bimetallism for countries operating in integrated bullion markets who enact different legal ratios. I articulate a new theoretical framework to demonstrate that two countries can both be bimetallic only if they coordinate their legal ratios. The theoretical...
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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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importance of regulatory arbitrage as a driver of cross-border bank flows since the global financial crisis. However, in the euro … area, arbitrage in capital stringency was linked to lower cross-border lending since the crisis. …
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theory it is shown how the fundamental arbitrage pricing relationships implied by the derivative character of the ecu have to …This paper considers arbitrage pricing of bonds and the determination of interest rates in the European Currency Unit … existing member currency assets and the member currencies' exchange rates. Using the technical apparatus of arbitrage pricing …
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We propose a multi-period model in which competitive arbitrageurs exploit discrepancies between the prices of two identical risky assets, traded in segmented markets. Arbitrageurs need to collateralize separately their positions in each asset, and this implies a financial constraint limiting...
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