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High frequency arbitrage opportunities sometimes arise when the price of one asset follows, with a lag, changes in the … value of another related asset due to information arrival. These opportunities are toxic because they expose liquidity … suppliers to the risk of being picked off by arbitrageurs. Hence, more frequent toxic arbitrage opportunities and a faster …
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We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital …, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that …
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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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The 2005 inclusion of Fitch ratings in the Lehman composite index ratings provides a quasi-natural experiment to identify rating-based market segmentation in the corporate bond market. Split-rated bonds with favorable Fitch rating that were mechanically upgraded to investment-grade status...
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The paper studies the role of risk arbitrage in takeover contests. We show that arbitrageurs have an incentive to … between trading volume, takeover premium, bidder's toehold, liquidity of the shares and the probability that the takeover will …
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traders with pure hedging motives in that market to withdraw, so reducing liquidity in the old market. The general point …
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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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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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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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